Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #17 in Helsinki, Finland

Helsinki Winter Garden is a greenhouse open to the public in the Zoo area north of Töölönlahti Bay at Hammarskjöldintie 1 A. The Winter Garden displays a wide range of plants, most of them from the tropics.

Wikipedia: Talvipuutarha (FI), Website

The Paavo nurmi statue is a whole-body sculpture of runner Paavo Nurmi, the most successful Olympic athlete in Finland, made by sculptor Wäinö Aaltonen. The bronze sculpture was made in 1925 and there have been four additional casts of it. The statue has become a symbol for Finnish sport and the independent Finnish nation as well as an envoy of the image of Finland.

Wikipedia: Paavo Nurmi statue (EN), Website

The Tram Museum or Tram Museum is a special museum operating under the Helsinki City Museum in Taka-Töölö, Helsinki. The museum presents the history of tram traffic in Helsinki. It is housed in Helsinki's oldest tram hall, dating back to 1900, designed by architect Waldemar Aspelin.

Wikipedia: Ratikkamuseo (FI)

Ilmatar ja sotka is the best-known work by Finnish sculptor Aarre Aaltonen, which depicts the birth of the world from the perspective of the Kalevala. The epic subject matter has been depicted in a way that refers to art deco and classicism. The statue is located in Helsinki's Sibelius Park, east of Mechelininkatu, which cuts through the park.

Wikipedia: Ilmatar ja sotka (FI), Website

The Sibelius Monument by Eila Hiltunen is dedicated to the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957). The monument is located in Sibelius Park in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland.

Wikipedia: Sibelius Monument (EN), Website

Töölö Church is a Lutheran church in the Taka-Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland. The building represents Nordic Classicism and was designed by Hilding Ekelund following an architectural competition. Completed in 1930, it originally served as a parish center and was dedicated as a church when Töölö parish was created in 1941.

Wikipedia: Töölö Church (EN)

The Finnish National Opera and Ballet is a Finnish opera company and ballet company based in Helsinki. It is headquartered in the Opera House on the coast of the Töölönlahti bay in Töölö, which opened in 1993, and is state-owned through Senate Properties. The Opera House features two auditoriums, the main auditorium with 1,350, seats and a smaller studio auditorium with 300–500 seats.

Wikipedia: Finnish National Opera and Ballet (EN), Website

Hesperianpuisto Park is a park located on the western shore of Töölönlahti Bay in Helsinki, belonging to the districts of Etu and Taka-Töölö. It borders Mannerheimintie in the west, Finlandia Hall in the south and the Finnish National Opera and Ballet in the north. On the beach, however, the park extends in a narrow strip all the way to Helsinginkatu, on the other side of which is the Zoo park area. South of Töölönlahti is the Töölönlahti Park, opened in 2016. The entire Töölönlahti park zone can be counted as part of Helsinki Central Park.

Wikipedia: Hesperian puisto (FI)

The Stone Guest is an opera in three acts by Alexander Dargomyzhsky from a libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 play of the same name which had been written in blank verse and which forms part of his collection Little Tragedies.

Wikipedia: The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky) (EN), Website

Mäntymäki is a rocky and forested hill in Helsinki, on the southern edge of the Zoo area near Töölönlahti. Helsinginkatu runs past it to the south and east, and Mäntymäentie to the north. On the west side in front of the hill is a wide square, the Mäntymäki field.

Wikipedia: Mäntymäki (Helsinki) (FI)