The Helsinki City Tourist & Convention Bureau’s Tourist Information offers free information about the city and its sights, events and services. Tourist Information provides tips and advice for making the most of your holiday. At the same time you can pick up brochures and maps.
The House of Culture in Helsinki is Aalto in his 'red brick period'. He achieves the free-form curves of the concert hall walls using wedge-shaped bricks, arranged variously with their shorter edge facing inside or outside the wall. The impact of the solid brick walls must be seen in the context of what had gone before. In Finland, the National-Romanics had used wood and granite to show closeness to Finnish nature, while the modern movement (as elsewhere) used more abstract white plaster surfaces (which did not wear well particularly in the Finnish climate). Aalto's red brick was therefore a bigger statement than it now seems: a man-made material that keeps its individuality and local personality.
Helsinki’s climate is typical of its northerly situation. Its intermediate climate combines characteristics of both a maritime and a continental climate. The proximity of the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic creates cold weather, while the Gulf Stream brings in warmer air.
Helsinki (en finlandés, y en sueco) es la capital y la ciudad más grande de Finlandia. Está situada en la costa sur del país, a la orilla del Golfo de Finlandia. Helsinki forma parte de la región de Uusimaa. Sus coordenadas son.
Unas 580. 000 personas viven en la propia ciudad de Helsinki (31 de octubre de 2007), y el área metropolitana (municipios de Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa y Kauniainen) tiene una población de casi un millón de habitantes en total. Incluyendo otros municipios cercanos la población es de alrededor de 1, 3 millones de personas. Uno de cada cuatro finlandeses vive en Helsinki.
Como la concentración urbana más grande de Finlandia, Helsinki es el centro nacional de la ciencia, la cultura, la economía y la política.
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