The majority of the population of the post-Soviet space has clear New Year’s associations: snow, the smell of spruce, the chiming clock, tangerines, Russian salad, champagne. If you decide to meet him outside of your home, Finland is a worthy alternative to celebrate, with the only difference being that the […]
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Architecture At the end of the 19th century, neo-Gothic became intertwined on the one hand with international Art Nouveau (Lars Sonck, * 1870, † 1956; Josef Stenbäck, * 1852, † 1929, etc.) and, on the other hand, in the studios that artists set up in the Finnish wilderness, with the […]
Finland has no state church but two so-called folk churches. One is the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which is home to about eight out of ten residents. The other is the Finnish Orthodox Church with about 60,000 members. Since the early 1990s, around half a million Finns have left the Evangelical […]