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Discover Kluuvi
The district Kluuvi of Helsinki in Helsinki (Uusimaa) is a district in Finland and is a district of the nations capital.
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When in this area, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Vantaa, Kauniainen, Tuusula, Kerava and Espoo. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 4°C / 39 °F
Morning Temperature | 2°C / 36 °F |
Evening Temperature | 4°C / 40 °F |
Night Temperature | 2°C / 35 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 1% |
Air Humidity | 97% |
Air Pressure | 995 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 8 km/h (5 mph) from East |
Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 100% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
Saturday, 30th of March 2024
4°C (39 °F)
3°C (37 °F)
Moderate rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 31st of March 2024
3°C (38 °F)
3°C (37 °F)
Scattered clouds, moderate breeze.
Monday, 1st of April 2024
5°C (41 °F)
2°C (36 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Hotel Haven
Original Sokos Helsinki
Klaus K Hotel
Original Sokos Albert
Hotel Indigo HELSINKI - BOULEVARD
SCANDIC SIMONKENTTA
Solo Sokos Torni
Cumulus City Hakaniemi Helsinki
SCANDIC MARSKI
Original Sokos Presidentti
Videos from this area
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WINTER IN HELSINKI!!! W/ MMIISAS & KPUNKKA
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Tram @ Helsinki - January 2013
Trams of Finnish capital Helsinki by day and by night Straßenbahnszenen in Helsinki/Helsingfors, am Tag und in der Nacht, inklusive einiger Auftritte von DÜWAG-Bahnen, unter anderem der für...
Helsinki Christmas Lights Tour, December 2013 - Finland
Helsinki Christmas Lights HD Video Tour, December 2013 - Finland. Helsingin joulu 2013 - Jouluvalot, Joulumarkkinat. Enjoy Christmas Lights in Helsinki...
Helsinki on longboard
Roll your way into Helsinki! Hills and valleys of the capital set the perfect conditions for boarding long all the way through the summer nights.
Helsinki Tram 3B-3T Ride - Short City Tour, Raitiolinja 3B-3T - Finland
Helsinki Tram 3B-3T Ride - Short City Tour, Raitiolinja 3B-3T - Finland, April 2012 Camera had run out of batteries close to Karhu Park in Kallio.
Helsinki New Year Fireworks 2014 - Finland
Helsinki New Year's Eve Fireworks 2014 - HD Video - Finland. Enjoy and Happy New Year!
Via Crucis Helsinki 2014
Pääsiäisen ajan kärsimysnäytelmä esitettiin jo 19. kerran Helsingissä. Saattue kulki Kaisaniemen puistosta Säätytalon kautta Senaatintorille huipentuen ristiinnaulitsemiseen Tuomiokirkon...
Helsinki Pride Parade 2014 (part2)
Helsinki Gay Pride Parade 2014 - 28 6 2014 (part2) Pink Black Bloc & Rhythms of Resistance.
Tailwind - Helsinki Horizon 2030
The future plans of the former harbour areas in Helsinki. Exhibition at Laituri 11.6.-4.9.2010.
Snow in dark Helsinki
More snow in dark Helsinki. But we are still here, and kicking. Also testing a new camera.
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish Åbo) in 1640 as The Royal Academy of Turku, at that time part of the Swedish Empire. It is the oldest and largest university in Finland with the widest range of disciplines available. Around 36,500 students are currently enrolled in the degree programs of the university spread across 11 faculties and 11 research institutes.
Bank of Finland
The Bank of Finland is the central bank of Finland. It is the fourth oldest central bank in the world.
Helsinki Cathedral
Helsinki Cathedral (Finnish: Helsingin tuomiokirkko, Suurkirkko; Swedish: Helsingfors domkyrka, Storkyrkan) is the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran cathedral of the Diocese of Helsinki, located in the neighbourhood of Kruununhaka in the centre of Helsinki, Finland. The church was originally built from 1830-1852 as a tribute to the Grand Duke of Finland, Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. It was also known as St Nicholas' Church until the independence of Finland in 1917.
Havis Amanda
Havis Amanda is a nude female statue in Helsinki, Finland. It was sculpted by Ville Vallgren (1855-1940) in 1906 in Paris, but was not erected at its present location at the Market Square in Kaartinkaupunki until 1908. Havis Amanda is one of Vallgren's Parisian Art Nouveau works. It is cast in bronze and the fountain it resides in is made of granite. She is a mermaid who stands on seaweed as she rises from the water, with four fish spouting water at her feet and surrounded by four sea lions.
Spårakoff
Spårakoff is a HM V type tram converted into a bar in Helsinki, Finland. Known as the pub tram, the bright red vehicle does circular tours of Helsinki picking up passengers for an additional fee during summer months. Claimed to be the only one of its kind in the world, the pub tram is immediately distinguishable in the Helsinki traffic by its vivid red colour and PUB destination board. Normal trams operated on the Helsinki tram network by Helsinki City Transport are green and cream.
Kaisaniemi metro station
Kaisaniemi or Kajsaniemi is a station on the Helsinki Metro. It serves the central Helsinki district of Kaisaniemi. It is the only station whose name is announced in only one language: whether this is Finnish or Swedish is unknown and irrelevant, because the Finnish 'Kaisaniemi' and the Swedish 'Kajsaniemi' are pronounced identically. When the station was opened the announcement was for a while in two languages like on the other stations, 'Kaisaniemi - Kajsaniemi'.
Helsinki Senate Square
The Senate Square presents Carl Ludvig Engel's architecture as a unique allegory of political, religious, scientific and commercial powers in the centre of Helsinki, Finland. Senate Square and its surroundings make up the oldest part of central Helsinki. Landmarks and famous buildings surrounding the square are the Helsinki Cathedral, the Government Palace, main building of the University of Helsinki, and Sederholm house (Sederholmin talo), oldest building of central Helsinki dating from 1757.
Caisa
Caisa is an International Cultural Centre in the centre of Helsinki, Finland. Located in Kaisaniemi in the city centre, it aims to support the multicultural development of the city by promoting the interaction of people from different countries, and by providing information about various cultures and about Finnish society. The director of Caisa is Leena Pellilä.
Aleksanterinkatu
Aleksanterinkatu is a street in the centre of Helsinki, Finland. In the city plan by Carl Ludvig Engel, it was the Decumanus Maximus, the main east-west street in the city, crossing the Cardo, Unioninkatu at the corner of the Senate Square. The street begins near the Presidential Palace and continues to meet with Mannerheimintie, the longest street in Helsinki.
Esplanadi
In the heart of Helsinki, the capital of Finland, the two streets constituting Esplanadi are officially named Pohjoisesplanadi and Eteläesplanadi . They lead from Erottaja Square to the Market Square (Kauppatori), and the North Esplanade extends along the border of the Market Square up to the Katajanokka Channel. Parallel to Pohjoisesplanadi, a little northwards, is Aleksanterinkatu. Esplanadi is colloquially called "Espa".
Rautatientori
Rautatientori (Finnish for "Railway Square", Swedish: Järnvägstorget) is an open square in central Helsinki, immediately to the east of the Helsinki Central railway station. The square mostly serves as Helsinki's secondary bus station (the primary one being at the Kamppi Center). The square faces the eastern side of the railway station, with two ornate entrances: a bigger one for public use, and a smaller one exclusively for the President of Finland and his/her official guests.
Kaisaniemi
Kaisaniemi is a part of the centre of Helsinki, Finland. It is located immediately north of the Helsinki Central railway station and south of Hakaniemi. The most famous part of Kaisaniemi is the Kaisaniemi park, a park covering many hectares right in the city centre. Kaisaniemi on part of the Vironniemi district and neighbourhood of Kluuvi. The Kaisaniemi district was first founded in the 1820s when Catharina "Kaisa" Wahllund founded a restaurant in the city centre.
Ateneum
For similarly named entities, see Athenaeum (disambiguation) 50x40pxThis article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The Ateneum is a major museum in Finland. It is located in the centre of Helsinki at the Rautatientori square opposite Helsinki Central Railway Station. It has the biggest collections of classical art in Finland.
Hotel Kämp
Hotel Kämp is a historical hotel in Helsinki, Finland. The hotel, originally built in 1887 by Carl Kämp, was designed by Theodor Höijer. The building was demolished and the facade was rebuilt in 1965. The headquarters of the bank Kansallis-Osake-Pankki (now part of Nordea) were situated in the building for almost three decades, until 1995.
Kluuvi
Kluuvi is the commercial centre of Helsinki, Finland, and a neighbourhood in the Vironniemi district of Helsinki. The Helsinki Central railway station, the Helsinki main post office, the Stockmann and Sokos department stores, the Kluuvi shopping centre and the main offices of Finnish banks are located in Kluuvi. Kluuvi includes the central campus of the University of Helsinki, the Ateneum art museum, and the movie theatres Maxim, Kinopalatsi and Bristol.
University of Helsinki Botanical Garden
The University of Helsinki Botanical Garden is an institution subordinate to the Finnish Museum of Natural History of the University of Helsinki, which maintains a collection of live plants for use in research and teaching. The Botanical Garden has two separate sites: one in Kaisaniemi and one in Kumpula. The Kaisaniemi Garden is open to the public. Its greenhouse is currently home to more than 800 different species of plants and its grounds to more than 2,800 plants of different origins.
Chez Dominique
Chez Dominique is a restaurant in Helsinki, Finland. The chef and owner is Hans Välimäki. The restaurant is located in Rikhardinkatu 4, and seats 50 people.
Kluuvi shopping centre
The Kluuvi shopping centre is a shopping centre on Aleksanterinkatu in the Kluuvi district in central Helsinki, Finland. The shopping centre has about 35 businesses. Kluuvi offers 10 new international brand stores first and only in Finland as well as a mix of some interesting Finnish retail concepts and restaurants. In the basement, you can find an eco-market hall concept representing local Finnish delicacies from more than 500 Finnish small producers.
City Centre Campus
The City Centre Campus is one of the four campus areas of the University of Helsinki. It is located at the historic centre of Helsinki. The campus houses the following faculties: Faculty of Arts Faculty of Behavioural Sciences Faculty of Law Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Theology In addition, the university central administration and several independent research institutes.
National Library of Finland
The National Library of Finland is the foremost research library in Finland. Administratively the library is part of the University of Helsinki. Until 1 August 2006, it was known as the Helsinki University Library. In addition to being the most important of the libraries of the University of Helsinki, the National Library is responsible for storing the Finnish cultural heritage.
Kaartinkaupunki
Kaartinkaupunki is a neighbourhood in the southern part of Helsinki, Finland. Kaartinkaupunki consists of the area between the Esplanadi park and the Tähtitornin vuori park. Its area was first confirmed in 1812, but the neighbourhood was only named in 1959. It is neighbourhood number 3 in Helsinki, belonging to the Ullanlinna district and to the Southern main district. Kaartinkaupunki was named after the old Russian army barracks located near Kasarmitori.
Nylands Nation
Nylands Nation (NN) is one the 15 student nations at the University of Helsinki, Finland's oldest, Swedish-speaking and established in 1643 at The Royal Academy of Turku. In 1828, the Academy moved to Helsinki taking the name "University" and Nylands Nation moved there along with the other Nations. Since 1904, the house of Nylands Nation, a building designed by Karl Hård af Segerstad in the national romantic style, has stood at Kasarmikatu 40.
Holy Trinity Church, Helsinki
The Holy Trinity Church is an Orthodox Church located in the Kruununhaka district of Helsinki, on the corner of Unioninkatu and Rauhankatu. The church was built in the neo-classical style in 1826 under the direction of the architect Carl Ludvig Engel, and was dedicated and opened in the following year. The Holy Trinity services the city's orthodox community with masses held in both Church Slavic and Finnish.
National Archives of Finland
The National Archives of Finland is a Finnish government agency responsible for archiving official documents of the Finnish state and municipalities. It is situated in the capital Helsinki. The archives was created in 1816 as part of the Senate of Finland. The present building was built in 1890. The present Swedish name was adopted in 1939 and the present Finnish name in 1994. It was in 1939 it also became a central government agency of its own.
Åbo Nation
Åbo Nation (ÅN) is one of the 15 student nations at the University of Helsinki, Swedish-speaking and established in 1643.