Finland

Olavinlinna: the island castle at Savonlinna

Olavinlinna is one of those buildings that geography explains immediately. It was raised on a rock in the middle of a strong current between two

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Koli National Park: the Finnish landscape

Koli National Park is the place from which Finns built their idea of what their own country looks like. From the rock at Ukko-Koli you

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Turku: the oldest city in Finland

Turku is the oldest city in Finland and was its capital until 1812, when the Russians moved the administration to Helsinki to pull it further

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Mökki: a guide to the Finnish lakeside cabin

A mökki is the Finnish summer cabin on a lakeshore, and in Finland it is not an accommodation trend but an institution. There are around

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Finnish Lapland: Santa, reindeer and aurora

The Arctic Circle runs through the northern edge of Rovaniemi, and someone had the commercial sense to put a Santa Claus Village exactly on the

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