OUR MISSION
to provide authentic history and culture to the inquisitive
OUR STORY
History and culture are complex.
to communicate them objectively and accurately requires dedicated examination and study, and then the passion and enthusiasm to explicate them truthfully.
These are our qualities.
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We are professionals, we have the academic certificates to prove it, and to further prove our passion and enthusiasm for Helsinki’s history and culture we have become authorised Suomenlinna Guides, a rigorous and studious process.
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Suomenlinna, the “Gibraltar of the North,” this is the key to understanding Helsinki, as without the former, the latter would have had an entirely different station in Finland, perhaps largely unknown.
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Hindsight is a fickle master, we wield it objectively.
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Complex history, architecture, and conflict can be neither oversimplified nor avoided. therefore, Each of our tours is immersive, transformative, steeped in discovery and veneration, for you we will create meaningful and authentic tours which will stay in your memory long after you leave Helsinki.
"The first impressions on entering the Finnish harbour of Helsingfors were very pleasing; there was a certain indefinable charm about the scene as we passed in and out among the thickly-wooded islands, or dived between those strong but almost hidden fortifications of which the Russians are so proud. Once having passed these impregnable mysteries, we found ourselves in open water, and before us the town with its fine Russian church of red brick with rounded dome, the Finnish church of white stone, and several other handsome buildings denoting a place of importance and considerable beauty."
Ethel Tweedie Finland in carts (1897)