https://www.theflashpacker.net/one-day-in-helsinki/ Solo Travel in Style Tue, 19 Nov 2024 07:24:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.theflashpacker.net/one-day-in-helsinki/#comment-1035 Tue, 03 Jan 2023 07:34:12 +0000 https://theflashpacker.net/?p=4272#comment-1035 […] Flashpacker – Visiting Helsinki On A Cruise: A Free Self-Guided Walking Tour (+ Maps) The approach to the cruise port of Helsinki is spectacular. Occupying a peninsula that is studded with over 300 islands, the so-called Daughter of the Baltic is surrounded on three sides by water. This natural seaport was founded by King Gustavus Vasa of Sweden (to which Finland belonged for many centuries) as a new trading post in southern Finland in 1550. The aim was to woo trade from the Estonian city of Tallinn, thus challenging the Hanseatic League’s monopoly on Baltic trade. […]

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