Helsinki - a bright city under the northern sky

Relevant to other European cities the problem of traffic congestion of highways, infrastructure deficiencies and traffic congestion during peak hours in Helsinki, have long since lost its sting. Today, Helsinki is one of the most intimate European cities. It can be called a perfect example of that in the metropolitan bustle and congestion there is still a place comfort and order. In addition, Helsinki is one of ten cities with the highest per capita income. Each year in the Finnish capital come new residents, including foreigners (about 10% of the population of Helsinki are citizens of other countries). Helsinki trams, or variotramy deserve a good word. Although the city has a subway, trams here, the basic, most convenient form of transport. At any time, every day they go strictly according to the schedule listed at the stops. Moreover, next to the schedule you can find a map of all city routes. Undervalued when - the Swedish rulers of the possibility of Helsinki today, let him be in every major city in Finland. About 90% of aircraft arriving in Finland, sit at Helsinki - Vantaa Airport. Not to mention the fact that the capital was a sea gate of Finland: it is regularly moored passenger ferries from St. - Petersburg, Stockholm, Tallinn, Rostock and Lubeck. Great prospects in Helsinki opened before the young people. In the capital of 8 universities. University of Helsinki was founded in 1640 in what was then the capital of Turku, but when Finland joined the Russian Empire, he moved to Helsinki. Here today are learning about 38 000 students. In the city of six technology parks, the most famous of them is science - a popular center of Eureka, who works on the principle of interactivity. One of the most visited places in Helsinki Senate Square. It appeared at the beginning of the XIX century., When the Swedes lost their influence in Finland, and was built later in the period 1818 - 1852 he center of the cathedral, also known as the Nicholas Palace (he devoted patron saint of Nicholas I, during whose reign, and was elevated This radiant, as if carved from ivory cathedral). In the center of the square opposite the palace of Nicholas, the monument to Alexander II, who became emperor in 1855 in memory of the Finns, this ruler was popularized in Finnish (Finnish when it became an official language along with the Swedish). The most unique architectural object Helsinki was built in 1969, the church on the square Temppeliaukio, it is also a concert hall with excellent acoustics, carved into granite rock. The only decoration of the hall are the copper plates on the ceiling. On the streets and squares of Helsinki in general a lot of sculptural monuments, both dedicated to specific people and representing allegorical figures. The most outstanding of them is a monument to composer Jan Sibelius. On four islands located near the town of old fortress Suomenlinna (Sveaborg), inscribed in UNESCO World Heritage List, where there are numerous galleries in the summer of Days of opera and sailing regattas. The islands located and rich ethnographic museum Seurasaari.