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Helsinki’s Flow Festival: Great for vegetarians

Flow Festival is known for more than music; it’s also about food – and there’s also plenty for vegetarians to enjoy. But you don’t have to wait for the festival weekend, since almost all the dishes we sample here are on offer all year round in Helsinki.

Life & society Society

Helsinki sees seaside sauna renaissance

Several new sauna buildings have impressively transformed parts of the Helsinki waterfront, increasing the number of public saunas where visitors and locals can go for an authentic Finnish sauna experience – and a bracing dip in the Baltic Sea.

Arts & culture Visual arts

Two Finnish artists walk and talk with the animals

Two of the artworks at the 2016 Flow Festival were just a prelude to another, larger exhibition that plays out weeks after the end of the festival.

Arts & culture Music

Find your way at Flow Fest 2016: Our Top 9 Finnish acts

It’s time for Flow Festival in Helsinki, and the extensive lineup may seem overwhelming. Check out nine of our local Finnish favourites at this very international event.

Arts & culture Museums

The revamped Helsinki City Museum opens doors to Helsinki’s past

Make a journey through history and admire fine architecture at Helsinki City Museum’s new main complex, where visitors can freely reflect on the past, right in the busy heart of the capital.

Life & society Lifestyle

Saturday means sauna in Finland

On Sauna Day bathers can get steamed up in venues not normally open to the public, including luxury saunas, rustic wooden saunas, a tube sauna, and a Mongolian yurt.

Arts & culture Slideshows

Lux Helsinki spreads light and warmth

When the dark months are here, we really need some illumination to light up Helsinki and our minds, too.

Arts & culture Visual arts

Tom of Finland: From the fringe to the mainstream

After decades in the shadows, the world is finally ready for Finland’s icon of erotic art, Tom of Finland.