Helsinki’s Art Nouveau highlights

When admiring Helsinki’s Art Nouveau architecture, it seems as if the world of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, has come to life with its intricate trees, flowers and forest creatures. Many of the details, the windows, stairways and doors, are beyond compare in their beauty. With all its fairy tale qualities, Art Nouveau in Finland assumed an even more political role compared to other countries in the way it strengthened the national identity.

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Entire neighbourhoods in Helsinki exude the magnificent forms, colours and materials of the Art Nouveau movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Boasting no less than 600 “Jugend” buildings – more even than in Barcelona or Brussels....