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HELSINGFORS - LoveToKnow Article on HELSINGFORS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Helsingfors is handsome and well laid out with wide streets, parks, gardens and monuments. |
 | | Other public institutions are the Athenaeum, with picture gallery, a Swedish theatre and opera house, a Finnish theatre, the Archives, the Senate House, the Nobles House (Riddarhuset) and the House of the Estates, the German (Lutheran) church and the Russian church. |
 | | Some of the scientific societies of Helsingfors have a wide repute, such as the academy of sciences, the geographical, historical, Finno-Ugrian, biblical, medical, law, arts and forestry societies, as also societies for the spread of popular education and of arts and crafts. |
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