Best Traditional Finnish Lakeland Saimaa Suomenlinna UNESCO 1991 Olavinlinna 1475 Petäjävesi UNESCO 1994 and Finland Deep Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Finland travel | Europe destinations Best Traditional Finnish Lakeland Saimaa Suomenlinna UNESCO 1991 Olavinlinna 1475 Petäjävesi UNESCO 1994 and Finland Deep Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Finland holds seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites and a freshwater inland sea unmatched in scale anywhere else in Europe. Beyond Helsinki's Senate Square and the Lapland-Rovaniemi north, the country's deep heritage sits in three linked layers: Lakeland Saimaa (4,400 km², Europe's fourth-largest lake by area, with around 14,000 islands), Suomenlinna sea fortress (UNESCO 1991, built from 1748 by Sweden across eight islands at the entrance to Helsinki harbour), and the medieval-and-wooden inland - Olavinlinna Castle at Savonlinna (founded 1475, host of the Savonlinna Opera Festival every July since 1912) and Petäjävesi Old Church (UNESCO 1994, built 1763-1765, Lutheran log architecture). Turku , Finland's oldest city (chartered 1229, European Capital of Cul...