Signature Luxury Travel & Style

CITY OF STYLE

Helsinki is that perfect thing, a small city easily explored on foot, where great design permeates almost every aspect of daily life.

At first glance it’s a conventionally pretty European town sitting on a peninsula in the island-strewn Gulf of Finland. The handsome, high-set Lutheran cathedral and brooding Russian church overlook the city’s broad esplanade and market square where tiny stalls sell fur jackets, salmon soup and reindeer meatballs.

In late spring, the city’s gardens are stuffed with tulips and the lawns crowded with sunbathing Finns slurping

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