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Christmas in Finland description

At the Christmas the air is cold and crisp, and the snow crunches when you walk. It also feels like Christmas here, in the home of Santa Claus. His Arctic Circle Village near Rovaniemi is full of visitors at Christmas time.

Wild & Free description

To be truly free, all you need is the untouched wilderness and a touch of madness in your blood. In the winter the cold wind is on your face as you go snowmobiling beneath the silent spruces nodding with snow.

Northern Lights - Aurora Borealis description

Is it the wrath of the gods? That is what the ancient people thought caused the Northern Lights, otherwise known as the Aurora Borealis. The Finnish word is "revontulet" meaning the fox's fires.

Finnish Architecture & Design description

Finnish design is a bit like Finns themselves, practical and functional. It has its roots in Finland's rural lifestyle, when someone in most farmhouses knew how to make a rocking chair, a willow flute or Christmas decorations out...

Summer Activities description

There is just one rule of Finnish summer: go outside. You can come in when it gets dark. Summer in Finland is short but the days are long. You can fit two or three days of activities into each one.

Fauna description

Finland's climate combines maritime and continental influences, and this is clearly reflected in the flora and fauna, which include both maritime species, whose main distributions are in the west; and more easterly, continental...

Winter Fun description

Here in Finland, we know a thing or two about snow. In northern Finland there are snow flurries already in September, and snow on the ground from November until May.

Finnish berries description

There is food almost everywhere you look. You can pick wild berries and mushrooms freely almost anywhere, except for cloudberries in parts of Lapland.

Silence, please description

In the rush and crush of modern life, the rarest things are what we value the most: space, quiet, time. Space to breathe, time to dream. You can find these treasures in Finland, where the lakes are many and the people are few.

Cultural beat description

Contrasts are the ingredients of Finnish cultural life, because things look and sound different from our northern perspective. Perhaps that explains heavy metal played on cellos and films almost completely without dialogue.