The Mini Rough Guide to Helsinki by Rough Guides

Author:Rough Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Finland
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2023-11-09T04:57:54+00:00

Excursions

Helsinki is a small capital city: once you have seen its sights, take a day trip to soak up Finland’s countryside; visit an atmospheric medieval trading town; or hop across the water to explore Tallinn, a Unesco World Heritage Site.

Fiskars

This attractive seventeenth-century ironworking village (bruk) makes for a very popular shopping/sightseeing trip from Helsinki. The village is where the Fiskars company, makers of the iconic, orange-handled tools, was born. A chuckling river runs in front of a long street of pretty buildings, many designed by Engel himself. Today, they form a concentrated pocket of Finnish art and design. Their little outlets, selling pottery, glassware, paper, leather goods, homeware, jewellery, clothing, chocolates and artisanal beer, open from 11am to 5pm in summer (weekends only during the rest of the year).

The Engel-designed Clock Tower building is the centrepiece of the village, containing an exhibition about the Fiskars company and a shop selling Fiskars products. Downriver, you’ll find the nineteenth-century copper forge and Assembly Hall; while upstream near the lake is Fiskars Museum (Peltorivi 9, tel: 019 237 013; Sept–May Wed–Sun 11am–4pm, June–Aug daily 11am–5pm; charge; www.fiskarsmuseum.fi), a living-history museum, where costumed workers bring the village’s ironworking history to life.

Mainly, the chief pleasure here lies in soaking up the charming atmosphere, wandering in and out of the studios and workshops, and stopping for cakes and coffee at one of the riverside cafés. All in all, Fiskars makes for a delightful day trip from Helsinki.

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