The official city site opens with a series of over 75 articles entitled "Visiting Helsinki" that give you great insight to the culture, history, and activites of the capital. "Helsinki A-Z" is a stright forward list of links; the "Picture Gallery" lets you browse the sights or send e-postacrds;and "New" takes you to lists of events for the current and coming year. Link to hotel accommodations and booking. Good overview, nice articles.

The Kings Road is an ancient, historical route connecting the northern capitals of Europe, and today it's a unique approach to travel in Finland. The Finnish Tourism Board site presents details for a variety of journeys, proposing Helsinki as the mid-way starting point for trips east or west. Allows you to connect with tour operators or create independent itineraries. Sitemap includes 11 cities from Stockholm, Sweden, to St. Petersburg, Russia, with information, tour recommendations, and links.

Virtual Finland takes you virtually everywhere and shows you virtually everything you want to know about the history, land, culture, and people of Finland. The FINFO Directory, with 15 categories of information, brings you hundreds of essays and links, many with video or audio segments. Monthly "picks" and a featured website provide timely knowledge, and a newsroom will keep you up to date on current events involving Finland. Sponsored by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

The Finnish Tourist Board's fitting title for this attractive website is "Finland. Naturally." The site is built around four travel themes - Winter Wonderland, White Christmas, Family Finland, and Summer Activities, each of which connects to separate pages that present full information and links for the theme. Choose your country of origin, from a list of 19, for a specially designed homepage. Take a look at the Guestbook for comments and questions from other visitors.