a guided day in Suomenlinna

Suomenlinna is an old army site in front of Helsinki coast. This site started to be built year 1748 by the Swedish-Finnish army, to stop the Russian enemy possibilities to attack Sweden's capital Stockholm.
​Since that time the fortress has been owned by the Russian army during the Grand Duchy time and after that the army forces of independent Finland.

Old soldiers are having a parade during one beautiful day in Suomenlinna

Sailing ships glide in the mist

Riding police taking part in the parade

Suomenlinna is an enormously nice place to have your bachelor party

You might also meet personnel of the fortress, probably they have stayed here pretty long time, searching for the disappeared ship?

These soldiers had just got their daily portion of alcohol, measured with a name "Jumpru". As always, they were very keen to share it...

And again one peaceful day has been spent in Suomenlinna. Sun is shining and the yellow herb idänukonpalko (bunias orientalis) is coloring the scenery. Wooden bird is guarding the peace of the island. 

Old Russian cannons are still here to remind us of the time when they were needed...

Even older cannons from the Swedish era have been placed here. This cannon is from the end of  1700 century.

So now it is the time to have something to drink and eat, and here in Suomenlinna you can enjoy many restaurants and cafe's.