Helsinki is Finland's capital, the city's largest and most populous country with over half a million inhabitants which is situated in the south of the country near the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea.

Its origins are transferred to the year 1550 when King Gustav I of Sweden founded the city to compete with the nearby city of Reval (now Tallinn, capital of Latvia), although it was not until the early nineteenth century when the city went from Helsinki being a coastal town to a city of some importance since the construction of the defensive fortress Suomenlinna.

The weather in Helsinki is cold in winter with average temperatures hovering around -5 º and sporadic near -20 °, but in summer they become softer with temperatures between 20 and 30 degrees thanks to the nearly 18 hours of sunlight available to in the summer months.

Helsinki has as its main tourist attractions Evangelical Lutheran Cathedral, the Orthodox Uspensky Cathedral, the church of rock, the fortress of Suomenlinna, Kauppatori market, the aquarium, the zoo, which hosted the Olympic Games 1952, Finnish National Theatre, the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, the museum Ateneum, the National Museum of Finland and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum.

To complete this offer historical and cultural Helsinki also has a little-known cuisine of high quality dishes, numerous parks and gardens where you can relax or play sports and a vibrant nightlife with many nightclubs and pubs to spend an unforgettable journey.

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