Helsinki - Kruununhaka

At the corner of Liisankatu and Marinkatu in Helsinki is a brick-red complex housing the Military Academy and Military Museum. This district of Kruununhaka (originally a small hunting reserve for the nobility) was rebuilt in Art Nouveau style between 1910 and 1925. This part of the town shows more variety of pattern than Katajanokka, with pleasant courtyards, gently curving streets, irregular little lanes and flights of steps. Beyond this we come to an arm of the Baltic, which farther west, near the Finlandia Hall, forms Töölö Bay (Töölönlahti).