Hietaniemi Cemetery

Helsinki · Finland

Hietaniemi Cemetery, Finland
Photo: J-P Kärnä, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Helsinki's principal cemetery, opened in 1829 by the sea, holds the graves of Finnish presidents, artists and Marshal Mannerheim. A hero's field of war dead and monumental tombs make it a centre of national remembrance.

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