Grotesque faces and figures taken from the Kalavela odyssey adorn the former headquarters of Pohjola Insurance Company, in Helsinki, Finland, on July 25, 2009. Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, housing 500,000 inhabitants on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea. Helsinki is famous for its numerous Art Nouveau (Jugend in Finnish) buildings, designed in the early 1900s and strongly influenced by the Kalevala, a very popular theme in the national romantic art of that era. Photo by Lucas Schifres/Pictobank
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