One day in Helsinki, Finland

A day through Helsinki’s best-known sights that lie close together: Senate Square, Helsinki Cathedral, Ateneum, Helsinki Central Railway Station, National Museum of Finland and Temppeliaukio Church. 6 stops, about 1.8 km between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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The route

  1. Senate SquareSquare · On the map
  2. Helsinki CathedralCathedral · 0.1 km on from Senate Square · On the map
  3. AteneumMuseum · 0.5 km on from Helsinki Cathedral · On the map
  4. Helsinki Central Railway StationLandmark · 0.2 km on from Ateneum · On the map
  5. National Museum of FinlandMuseum · 0.7 km on from Helsinki Central Railway Station · On the map
  6. Temppeliaukio ChurchTemple or shrine · 0.4 km on from National Museum of Finland · On the map

6 stops, 2.6 km on foot along the streets: about 32 min of walking.

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Photo credits

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons, through each place’s Wikidata entry.

Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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