Espoo

— Journey —

25 min from Helsinki

Espoo, twenty-five minutes west of the capital, is Finland's second city and its most quietly affluent — Tapiola garden city, the Aalto-designed campus of Otaniemi, the EMMA museum of modern art, and the lakeside villas of Westend and Haukilahti. FFGR Finland chauffeurs the coastal route past the marinas of Suomenoja, with day-loops north into Nuuksio National Park, where eagle-owls and elk move through old-growth spruce thirty minutes from the city. The Hvitträsk studio-home of Saarinen, Gesellius and Lindgren sits at the park's edge — National Romantic architecture above its own private lake. Espoo is also home to Finland's technology aristocracy; FFGR Finland coordinates discreet corporate arrivals at Keilaniemi and private dinners at the lakeside Haltia nature centre.