Helsinki - Sibelius Monument, tribute to a cultural symbol of Finland

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Sibelius Monument in Helsinki

It's one of the Helsinki tourist icons, a place that you will surely visit, or where they will take you if you take a city tour on a stopover on a Baltic cruise.

I mean the Sibelius Monument, a sculptural group dedicated to Jean Sibelus, the Finnish composer who developed all his work in the first half of the twentieth century, author of the music of the anthem of Finland, who became one of the cultural symbols of the country.

You can find this monument in the neighborhood of Toolo to the northwest of the city, in a forest by the sea that forms the also known as Sibelius Park.

Sibelius Monument in Helsinki

Sibelius Monument in Helsinki

Made in 1967 by Eila Hiltunen, in view of the monument you can think that it is inspired by an organ, because it is a sculptural set of more than 600 hollow steel tubes, but in reality it seems that the Finnish artist wanted to represent a birch grove, considered as a tree National of Finland.

The truth is that the abstract design of the Sibelius Monument He created so much debate in his time, that it was decided to complement it with a sculpture with the sphinx of the honored composer, whose location is true that it is a bit strange next to the forest of steel tubes.

Sibelius Monument in Helsinki

I tell you that there is a model of the smaller monument in the square of the headquarters of the United Nations In New York.

Also, when you visit the monument, you will find a corner by the sea that makes up the red wooden house where the Kahvila Cafe, which is worth seeing because it takes you to a typical country landscape and nature, but almost in the center of Helsinki.

Country landscape in the center of Helsinki

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