Finland Travel Guide

If you like majestic open spaces, fine architecture, and courteous locals, Finland is for you. Mother Nature dictates life in this Nordic land, where winter brings perpetual darkness, and summer, perpetual light. Crystal clear streams run through vast forests lighted by the midnight sun, and reindeer roam free. Even the arts mimic nature: witness the music of Jean Sibelius, Finland's most famous son, which can swing from a somber nocturne of midwinter darkness to the tremolo of sunlight slanting through pine and birch, or from the crescendo of a blazing sunset to the pianissimo of the next day's dawn. The architecture of Alvar Aalto and the Saarinens—Eliel and son Eero, visible in many U.S. cities, also bespeaks the Finnish affinity with nature, with soaring spaces evocative of Finland's moss-floored forests.

Experience Finland

• Top Reasons to Go to Finland

Regions in Finland

• The Lakelands
• Lapland
• Mariehamn and the Åland Islands

• Side Trips from Helsinki
• Southwestern Coast and the Ålands

Cities in Finland

• Ainola
• Fiskars Village
• Gallen-Kallela Estate
• Hämeenlinna
• Hanko
• Helsinki
• Hvitträsk

• Inari
• Ivalo
• Kuopio
• Naantali
• Porvoo
• Rovaniemi

• Saariselka
• Savonlinna
• Tammisaari
• Tampere
• Turku
• Vantaa

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