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Live music at the Allas Sea Pool

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Flow Festival 2018

Coldplay

27.7.2024 17:00 Helsinki Olympic Stadium

Helsinki’s iconic Olympic Stadium gets an elegant renovation

Picnic places in Helsinki where you can enjoy the evening sun

Summer music festivals in Helsinki

Live music venues for great gigs in Helsinki

Quick quide: Teurastamo

The best public saunas in Helsinki

Helsinki's best wine bars

The clubber’s guide to Helsinki

A snack-sized guide to up-and-coming food in Helsinki

Restaurant and food delights inside Helsinki’s market halls

The best places to see street art in Helsinki

Audiobooks about Helsinki

Helsinki’s best new restaurants spring 2024

Helsinki’s most popular jogging routes

DTM’s epic revival: Helsinki’s largest gay club is back in action

Helsinki's vibrant canopy kiosks

3 ways to make the most of Helsinki's seaside

Get into the #COLDSINKI mood and explore the capital:

Top reasons to visit Helsinki in summer

The Helsinki Olympic Stadion, built in 1938, was designed in functionalistic style by the architects Yrjö Lindegren and Toivo Jäntti. 

1. Helsinki Olympic Stadium

Relaxed bar and sunny summer terrace nearby the Opera and the Olympic Stadium. Small, cozy indoor bar also open in winter.

Craft beers, organic wines, coffee, mojitos and sangria among other things on the menu.

Apart from the chill background music, also live music and DJ's at some nights.

2. Pinehill Terrace

Designed by architect Jorma Järvi, the Swimming Stadium was built for the 1940 Olympic Games, which due to the outbreak of war were cancelled. It later went on to host part of the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games. 
The today popular outdoor swimming pool area consists of four different pools: 50-metre pool, diving pool, children's pool, wading pool.

3. Swimming Stadium

The former Helsinki abattoir from 1933, re-opened in 2012 as Teurastamo Helsinki, is a melting pot of food and urban culture. Currently there are a dozen active businesses operating in the Teurastamo area, ranging from restaurants to urban events, from a business college to a coffee roastery and from a distillery to a pasta factory. Together, these businesses form Teurastamo, but the area also serves as the shared living room and backyard of the residents of Helsinki, open all year round and featuring a yard with a grill and a rental sauna.

4. Teurastamo

Hietaranta (also called Hietsu) offers a shallow and safe swimming area and is very popular on hot summer days.

5. Hietaranta beach

Allas Sea Pool is a marine spa and an oasis of urban culture right at the heart of the city.

6. Allas Sea Pool

Tavastia is one of Europe's oldest still active rock clubs. The club, built in 1970, features live concerts with international artists as well as top Finnish artists. Every Saturday, after the gigs, the DJs play indie/pop/rock music from the best classics to the latest hits. 

The restaurant Ilves offers lunch on weekdays and snacks till the wee hours of the night.

7. Tavastia-klubi

Suomenlinna sea fortress is a Unesco World Heritage Site located on the coast of Helsinki, and also a suburb of Helsinki with around 800 residents.

8. Suomenlinna Sea Fortress

Established in 2004, Flow Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary on 9–11 August 2024 at Suvilahti, Helsinki.&nbsp;To celebrate its first 20 years with a worthy bash, Flow presents an international program consisting of the brightest stars in pop and indie, the biggest names in DJ and club music, and a wide-ranging collection of experimental arts and music, unique in its diversity and quality.Flow is also known for its praiseworthy restaurant selection, extensive responsibility program, and one-of-a-kind post-industrial festival site. In total, Flow will host around 150 of the most exciting current artists. 'For the most up-to-date info, visit Flow Festival's website at <a href="https://www.flowfestival.com">https://www.flowfestival.com</a> .&nbsp;&nbsp;Suvilahti 9.-11.8.20243-day ticket 239 €, the price applicable for the time being. Age limit 18 yrs&nbsp;www.instagram.com/flowfestivalhelsinki&nbsp; www.facebook.com/FlowFestival&nbsp; www.twitter.com/FlowFestival&nbsp;

9. Flow Festival 2024

Four shimmering green figures have laid down temporary roots in the Lasipalatsikortteli Square and on the terrace of Bio Rex.&nbsp;The moss giants are the first works by Kim Simonsson to be shown outdoors in central Helsinki. They form a community of exceptional children. The artist has given each child a task, all of which are equally necessary to maintain the giants’ harmonious coexistence. Some carry various tools on their backs, others are accompanied by animals. The giants talk in Finnish sign language.Originally created for the French festival lille3000, the giants will continue their journey in the autumn, when they will be permanently installed in the forests of Söderlångvik manor on Kemiö Island.&nbsp;Lasipalatsi Square29.4.-20.10.2024Free admission

10. Kim Simonsson: Moss Giants

DTM is the largest gay bar and nightclub in Northern Europe and the undisputed leader in Finland's gay nightlife.

11. DTM

Hakaniemi Market Hall is a genuine Finnish market hall.  Designed by architect Karl Hård af Segerstad, the market hall was opened in 1914. The charming 100-year-old building has many shops on two floors. Eg. fresh fish, bread and pastries and other delicious food can be found on the first floor and souvenirs, handicrafts, interior decorations and other design objects on the second floor. 



12. Hakaniemi Market Hall

Oodi is Helsinki's new Central Library and a living meeting place in the city centre on the Kansalaistori Square. Oodi is a venue for events, a house of reading and a diverse urban experience. It will provide its users with knowledge, new skills and stories, and will be an easy place to access for learning, story immersion, work and relaxation. Oodi is a library of a new era, a living and functional meeting place open for all.

13. Oodi, Helsinki Central Library

Löyly is a public sauna and restaurant complex in Hernesaari district on the southern tip of Helsinki. The complex includes a traditional Finnish smoke sauna and two other wood-heated saunas, a year-round terrace and a restaurant. The saunas offer direct access to the outdoor seating area and the sea, where it is possible to enjoy a refreshing swim, all year round. There are separate changing rooms and shower facilities for men and women but as the saunas and other public areas are mixed, it means that customers are respectfully asked to wear swimming costumes at all times.

The restaurant, favoring ecological and locally produced ingredients, offers lunch, dinner and brunch on Saturdays.

14. Löyly

Amos Rex is an art museum where the past, present and future meet.

15. Amos Rex

Lonna is a charming little island situated between Helsinki's bustling Market Square and the Suomenlinna Fortress Island.

16. Lonna

Covering a thousand hectares, the Central Park runs ten kilometres from south to north, starting near the city centre in Laakso and ending in Haltiala in the northern outskirts of the city. In the city centre, the park consists of mainly recreational forests, while in Haltiala there are primeval forests and agricultural landscapes. There are four nature reserves in the park: the deciduous forests in Pitkäkoski and Ruutinkoski, Haltiala primeval forest and Niskala arboretum.

The Central  park is a very popular recreational area with a diverse range of environments.

17. Central Park

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Coldplay is coming to Helsinki as part of their Music Of The Spheres World Tour! Experience 2024. The band will play four concerts at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium between July 27 and July 31. ...