Monument sights in Finland
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Sibelius Park
At lovely Sibelius Park you'll find a steel monument to the great Finnish composer. The organlike cluster of steel pipes is said to represent the forest.
This kinetic modern sculpture was created by artist Eila Hiltunen in 1967 to honor Finland's most famous composer, Jean Sibelius. Born in 1865 in Hämeenlinna, Sibelius wrote music for the glorification of his own people and in defiance of the oppressor, Russia. His most famous composition, Finlandia, came to represent Finnish patriotism and pride.
Hiltunen's innovative abstract structure was designed to blend with the natural surroundings. Appropriately for a monument to a composer, the sculpture creates its own music -…
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War Memorial
South of the church stretches the graveyard, on one side of which is the evocative war memorial, which commemorates those Finns who died in the Winter and Continuation Wars and whose graves are now in Russian territory.
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Monument of Liberty
Where Bulevardi meets the beach is the Monument of Liberty, commemorating the landing of liberating German forces in 1918. The monument was taken down after WWII, but re-erected in 1960 with new text.
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Statue Of Havis Amanda
Check out the fountain and mermaid Statue Of Havis Amanda , designed by artist Ville Vallgren in 1908 and regarded as a symbol of Helsinki.
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