25 sights
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Museum
Amos Rex
Art museum in domed galleries under the Lasipalatsi square, known for experimental contemporary shows.Entry: Buy at the door or online. Closed TuesdaysSearch tickets and tours on TiqetsMuseum
Ateneum Art Museum
Finnish National Gallery museum in the city center, showing Finnish and international art.Entry: Buy at the door. Closed MondaysSearch tickets and tours on TiqetsNeighborhood
Design District
About 25 streets of design shops, ateliers, galleries and museums just south of the center.Entry: Free to visitNature
Esplanade Park
Engel's tree-lined park between the Market Square and the center, with the Runeberg statue and summer stage.Entry: Free to visitSearch tours on TiqetsMarket
Hakaniemi Market Hall
Two-floor market hall from 1914 on Hakaniemi square, with food stalls, crafts and lunch cafés.Entry: Pay as you go. Closed SundaysChurch
Helsinki Cathedral
Engel's white Lutheran cathedral above Senate Square, completed in 1852 and crowned by twelve apostle statues.Entry: €[fee]Search tickets and tours on TiqetsMarket
Hietalahti Market Hall
A market hall over 100 years old, now a hall of cafés and international kitchens.Entry: Pay as you goFood
Jokikatu, Porvoo
Main shopping street of Old Porvoo, lined with small cafés, restaurants and boutiques.Entry: Pay as you goFood
Kallio
Former working-class district in eastern downtown, now full of cafés, restaurants and bars.Entry: Pay as you goChurch
Kamppi Chapel
Curved chapel of silence from 2012, set on Narinkkatori square beside the Kamppi center.Entry: €[fee]Search tickets and tours on TiqetsFoodBook ahead
Löyly
Seaside public sauna and restaurant with a smoke sauna and year-round swims in the sea.Entry: Book a sauna timeMarket
Market Square
Helsinki's harbor market of food stalls, crafts and heated café tents, where the Suomenlinna ferry leaves.Entry: Pay as you goMarket
Old Market Hall
Harborside market hall trading since 1889 in fish, cheese, vegetables, cakes, coffee and tea.Entry: Pay as you go. Closed SundaysNeighborhood
Old Porvoo
Cobbled lanes of colorful wooden houses in the old town of Porvoo, about an hour from Helsinki.Entry: Free to visitNeighborhood
Oodi Central Library
Helsinki's free central library on Kansalaistori square, a public living room for reading, events and work.Entry: Free to visitChurch
Porvoo Cathedral
Medieval cathedral on the hill above Old Porvoo, in its present form since the late 15th century.Entry: Free to visitSearch tours on TiqetsViewpoint
Red shore houses, Porvoo
Red-ochre riverside warehouses, mostly built in the 1760s, now restaurants, shops and lodgings.Entry: Free to visitSearch tours on TiqetsNeighborhood
Senate Square
Neoclassical square framed by four Carl Ludvig Engel buildings, with the cathedral steps on its north side.Entry: Free to visitNature
Seurasaari Island
Island across a white wooden bridge, with walking paths, squirrels and an open-air museum of rural buildings.Entry: Free to visitSearch tours on TiqetsViewpoint
Sibelius Monument
Eila Hiltunen's 1967 sculpture of more than 600 steel pipes honoring the composer Jean Sibelius.Entry: Free to visitSearch tours on TiqetsNeighborhood
Suomenlinna
UNESCO-listed island sea fortress with six kilometres of walls, cannons and tunnels, 15 minutes by ferry.Entry: Free to visitMuseum
Suomenlinna Museum
Museum in the Suomenlinna Centre telling the fortress's story under Sweden, Russia and Finland.Entry: €[fee]Search tickets and tours on TiqetsChurch
Temppeliaukio Church
Church cut into solid rock in 1969, lit through 180 skylights under a copper dome.Entry: Pay at the door or onlineSearch tickets and tours on TiqetsFood
Teurastamo
The former city abattoir of 1933, reopened in 2012 as a yard of restaurants and food producers.Entry: Pay as you goChurch