The high speed Allegro train from St Petersburg to Helsinki.
The meeting point for our walking tour in front of the Bank of Finland building in the Market Square.
View from the Cathedral across Market Square…
Helsinki still has a great tram service.
Uspenski Cathedral is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral.
Looking across at the city harbour port.
The Kamppi Chapel is also known as the “Chapel of Silence” since it is intended to be a place of calm and silence.
Returning to the starting point after our walking tour, with another view of the Cathedral.
The great market on the waterfront.
We took a short ferry ride past the city…
…to Suomenlinna, the ‘fortress of Finland’, built by the Swedes in the 18th century.
The Suomenlinna church, built by the Russians in 1854, doubles as a lighthouse….
Russian merchants were allowed to build wooden houses on the island.
Back in the city, we explored the back streets and found the architecture interesting and varied.
