Helsinki - Hietaniemi Cemetery

Down the coast from Helsinki's Sibelius Memorial are the Rowing Stadium and the beautiful sandy beach of Hietaniemi. Beyond this lies Hietaniemi cemetery (a military cemetery as well as a civil one), on the highest point of which is a cross commemorating the fallen. Here too Marshal Mannerheim (1867-1951) is buried.

Near the entrance are the graves of the politicians Risto Ryti, Väinö Tanner, T. M. Kivimäki and E. Linkomies, who - as a condition of the 1944 armistice - were tried by a Finnish court for their political activities during the war and were given prison sentences.