The Presidential Palace

I happened to take this photo while they were changing the guards, in the pouring rain.

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September 20th 2007
Have you heard the new album from Architecture In Helsinki? It's fantastic. Will defiinitely have to get a copy when I get back to London. Anyway, the actual architecture in Helsinki is not bad either. A lot of baroque, as tends to be the case in Scandinavia, as well as many neo-classical buildings. In a nutshell, it's part Scandinavian, part Russian, but definitively Finnish ;-) The same ... read more

Europe » Finland » Uusimaa » Helsinki

Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the 12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia after 1809. It won its complete independence in 1917. During World War II, it was able to successfully defend its f... ... read more

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