Helsinki Expert‘s programmes meet the wishes of any group. Everything for a perfect visit – an authorised guide, transfers, meals, accommodation and activities – is arranged from one address.
Breathe in the creative air of Helsinki’s design district, an area comprising 25 streets on which 150 unique actors – boutiques, workshops, restaurants and hotels – are concentrated.
Duration: 3,5 hours
Season: 01.01.2009 - 31.12.2010
The tour introduces visitors to both the established names and the promising new talents of Finnish design. The tour stops at locations that are associated with the design theme as well as at the Design Forum. Appropriately for the theme, this tour ends with lunch served in a restaurant decorated with vintage design items which you can purchase to take home!
A cultural and architectural tour to Ainola and Villa Kokkonen. Ainola was the home of the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius and is today a museum. Villa Kokkonen is one of the few private homes designed by Alvar Aalto.
The bastion walls at Suomenlinna fortress hide over 200 years old tunnels and casemates. The durable walls protected one of the biggest sea fortresses in the the world.
Breathe in the creative air of Helsinki’s design district, an area comprising 25 streets on which 150 unique actors – boutiques, workshops, restaurants and hotels – are concentrated.
