A medieval castle built in 1475 on a rocky island in the Saimaa lake district, the northernmost medieval stone fortress still standing. Every July its courtyard hosts the Savonlinna Opera Festival.
Saimaa is Finland's largest lake, a maze of islands and waterways, home of the rare Saimaa ringed seal. Take a lake cruise on an old steamboat or kayak; stay in a lakeside cottage with a sauna. Savonlinna is about 4 hours from Helsinki.
A hill rising above Lake Pielinen in eastern Finland, with a view over forest and islands that inspired Sibelius and Finland's national romantic pain…
An 18th-century fortress built across six islands at the entrance to Helsinki's harbour, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A church carved directly into solid rock, opened in 1969, with walls of raw stone and a copper dome lit by a ring of skylights.
A national park of forest, lakes and rocky hills just 30 km from Helsinki, a great taste of Finnish nature, with well-marked trails, fire places, and…
Turku, Finland's oldest city and former capital, has a 13th-century castle at the mouth of the Aura River, one of the largest medieval buildings in F…
The largest preserved wooden town in the Nordic countries, with around 600 colourful wooden houses on narrow streets, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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