A day I had been looking forward to, meeting up with my Finnish blogging friend Suvi, author of the lovely blog Destination Everywhere whom I first met on my visit to Finland last year. This time we planned a day out together exploring Lake Tuusula in Järvenpää, about a 30 minute drive from Helsinki. Suvi kindly came to pick me up from my base in Espoo and in warm sunshine we headed north making our first stop atAinola,the former home of the composer Jean Sibelius.
Ainola, the former home of Jean Sibelius
To concentrate on his music, Sibelius moved to this home on a wooded slope near to Lake Tuusula in Järvenpää. The house was completed in 1904 originally as a log house in the National Romantic style then in 1911 the walls were cladded and a tiled roof was added. It was called Ainola, meaning Aino’s home…
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