Is This Nordic City the Next Capital of Cool?

Helsinki, Finland’s southern capital, sits on a peninsula in the Gulf of Finland. Its central avenue, Mannerheimintie, is flanked by institutions including the National Museum, tracing Finnish history from the Stone Age to the present. Finnish cuisine is notable for generally combining traditional country fare and haute cuisine with contemporary continental style cooking. Whether it’s tasty salmon soup, fillets of perch, pickled Baltic herring or smoked vendace, the list simply goes on and on. #

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