From Old Town We Travel To New Town
July 17th 2007 From Old Town We Travel To New Town Helsinki is the only capital city in Europe to have no medieval past. This modern Baltic city was originally formed in the late 1700’s as a supply depot for a fort. Later, when the Russians took the country from the Swedes, the capital was moved here so that it could be closer to St. Petersburg. For more than 100 years the Finns were ruled by M
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