Tourism

4 top class festivals to experience Tampere this month

The Nomad Today 6/7/19

In summer Tampere boils with the celebration of music and art festivals. Here we propose the 4 main events for this month of June.

Tourism

5 interesting (and quite cheap) destinations abroad for this summer

The Nomad Today 6/2/19

Read below our selection of attractive destinations, which are easy to reach from Finland and cheap enough for all budgets.

The most endangered seal in the world lives in Finland

The Nomad Today 5/31/19

The Saimaa ringed seal or saimaannorppa lives only in Finland in the Lake Saimaa. In the beginning of the 20th century, the seals were almost hunted until extinction. Today there is hope for their…

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Linnanmäki: Helsinki’s playground is open and waiting for visitors

Barbara Stojanovic 5/29/19

Of all the options to have fun during the spring and summer seasons in Helsinki, the Linnanmäki amusement park remains one of the most beloved and chosen by locals, foreigners and tourists alike.

People passing in front of Helsinki central train station. Photo: Julia Kivela/Visit Finland.

Tourism

Venäjä ei tule! Nights spent by Russian tourists in Finland drop in January-April

The Nomad Today 5/29/19

In the first four months of 2019 the number of overnight stays in Finland by non-resident tourists decreased by 0.4% year-on-year. Nights spent by Russians, by far the largest group of visitors,…

How to explore the Archipelago National Park from Turku

The Nomad Today 5/24/19

Turku’s Archipelago contains the most diverse and interesting national park in the whole of Finland.

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15 Finnish museums that cater to all tastes and ages

Barbara Stojanovic 5/23/19

Do you want to visit some museums while learning about Finnish culture? Here are our top 15 suggestions in the Helsinki area.

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The sun will not set in the northernmost village of Finland until July 28th

The Nomad Today 5/22/19

Utsjoki is the northernmost municipality in Finland and in the EU. The sun will illuminate there the sky uninterruptedly for more than two months, according to the Finnish Meteorological Institute.

A day in Tampere, the city where so many good things happen

The Nomad Today 5/17/19

Top class musical and cultural events, conferences, a large number of restaurants with their varied culinary delicacies, art galleries, terraces and music pubs merge here with museums, monuments and…

Cruises, a major holiday attraction for Finns

Pablo Morilla 5/17/19

Finnish people travel on ferries to the neighboring countries all around the year, but it is in spring and summer when this kind of boat trips reach the highest demand by passengers.

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Helsinki Swimming Stadium opens up again at Mother's Day

Teemu Kammonen 5/10/19

This architectural pearl was designed in the Functionalist style for the 1940 Olympic games that were canceled due to the Second World War. Later, when Helsinki hosted the 1952 Summer Olympics,…

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Tips to enjoy Turku in one day

The Nomad Today 5/3/19

In Turku everything revolves around the River Aura and the city's best attractions are at either end

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Spring is here: let the festival season begin!

Barbara Stojanovic 4/21/19

The long and cold winter is over. To help celebrate the coming of spring, summer and the polar nights, Finland hosts a vast number of festivals that are sure to make just about everyone happy

The country of the 3 million saunas

The Nomad Today 4/17/19

Sauna is a central characteristic of Finnish culture and one third of the world saunas can be found in Finland. In the early 20th century in the United States they believed that the athlete Paavo…

Easter holidays are coming, where is the cheapest fuel in the EU?

The Nomad Today 4/10/19

The prices mentioned in this article have been taken from the last Oil Bulletin published by the European Commission

Demand for accommodation services grew by 1.5 per cent in 2018

The Nomad Today 4/9/19

In 2018, the average price of a hotel room was 104 euros and Russians were the largest group of foreign tourists in Finnish accommodation establishments.

Helsinki wants to build the world's best museum of architecture and design

The Nomad Today 4/3/19

The museum will be built by the South Harbour as part of a comprehensive development of that area

Finnish residents' travel to Southern Europe increased in 2018

The Nomad Today 3/28/19

Leisure trips abroad decreased slightly from the year before. The biggest reason for the fall was Estonia to which considerably fewer trips were made

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The birthplace of the Soviet Union is not in Russia but in Tampere

The Nomad Today 3/14/19

The Lenin Museum in Tampere is the only place of its kind that still exists outside Russia and is located in the same rooms where Lenin and Stalin met each other for the first time in 1905