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One of Finland's most popular amusement parks, dedicated to Tove Jansson's lovable Moomin characters (huge in Finland and Japan, but not too well known elsewhere).
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Suomenlinna is a UNESCO world heritage site at the coast of Helsinki.
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Unlike the Helsinki Central railway station ,which stands out as a prominent landmark of downtown Helsinki, the Turku Central railway station blends in among the scenery and is hidden behind other buildings when viewed from the city centre.
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There is a local train in the morning and another train in the evening back to Helsinki.
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The Gulf of Finland separates southern Finland from Estonia and in the north Norway isolates Finland from the Barents Sea.
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Every day, around ten ships depart from the harbour, heading for the labyrinth of islands on Lake Saimaa or through the Saimaa Canal.
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Located ( 60.4515° N 22.2669° E )at the mouth of the Aurajoki in the southwest of the country, it is the capital city of both the region of Finland Proper and the province of Western Finland ,as well as being the centre of the country's third largest urban area ,with around 270,000 inhabitants.
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Western Finland — the coastal areas, the old capital Turku ,Finland's number two city Tampere and the southern parts of the historical province of Ostrobothnia ( Pohjanmaa , Österbotten ).
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Initially the Diana II was placed on Viking Line's Turku - Mariehamn - Stockholm service, but in June 1980 when the Viking Sally was delivered, she was moved to the Naantali - Mariehamn - Kapellskär route, where she served for the remainder of her Viking Line career.
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Because of the additional conference facilities added on deck 8 on the Rosella ,she was better suited for the Turku-Stockholm route than her older sister, which she replaced on the route on May 23rd, 1980.
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As Ã…landers still wanted to revert to integration into Sweden and were not unduly beguiled by Finnish offers of autonomy, the question was referred to the League of Nations who determined that Finland should retain sovereignty but that Ã…land should be autonomous, monolingual [Swedish only, unlike the mainland of Finland which is bilingual, both Finnish and Swedish being official languages] and completely demilitarised.
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The municipality was located in south-western Finland, surrounding the city of Naantali, and composed of rural and suburban areas around it, mostly on the island of Luonnonmaa and to the north of the city.
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)all refer to regions of different size surrounding Turku ,the capital city of both the region of Finland Proper and the province of Western Finland.
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Additional travel guides are available in ten languages at Wikitravel.org.
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Turku Airport [2] is a small facility 8 km north of the city.
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Here you also find clothing shops -textili -, supermarket, iron shop, gas stations, car repair (Sami Auto), friseur, camping with café and internet service and also a restaurant/bar.
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Also the building of the Saimaa canal and the construction of the railway system created a positive effect for the city.
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There is also hicking cross country skiing tracks near rhe stadium.
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In World War II Lappeenranta experienced heavy soviet bombardment.
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It is closely related to Estonian and Karelian, and has common origins with Samoyed and the languages spoken in the Volga basin.
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Activities of the Valmieran Resistance under the occupation, seen through the eyes of the character Skarnu, are closely equivalent to the French Resistance in World War II ,while the collaboration of most nobles and the Vamieran police with the occupiers resembles the Vichy regime, and in the final part of the war the Kuusaian and Lagoan victors give the Valmierans a share in the spoils which they had not truly earned, as The US and Britain did for France in 1944-45.
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In the center of Helsinki is a shopping center, Forum, which is mostly full of popular youth's clothing shops like Backstreet, Lindex, H&M, Seppälä, KappAhl, O.N.L.Y, and many, many more.
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Ferries of Ecker� Line, Tallink, Silja Line and Viking Line (especially Silja&Viking) are floating shopping malls and wonderful attraction as themselves, too :D Best regards, Sami.
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Up until that point the company had operated with used ships purchased or chartered from other companies, but after TT-Line acquired Olau in 1979, the new owners invested in building two new cruiseferries for the company.
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Sweden [1] is the largest of the Nordic countries in Northern Europe ,with a population of about 9 million.
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