Portal:Finland/Did you know/4


 * ...that the Finnish company YIT was responsible for the construction of the Finnish National Opera house, the Helsinki Fair Centre and Cirrus, the tallest high-rise building in Finland?
 * ...that the paintings in the Espoo Cathedral were painted over in the 18th century, as they were thought to be "crude and superstitious'?
 * ...that there are three unilingually Swedish municipalities in one province of mainland Finland?
 * ...that Maria, the Finnish form of Mary, is the most popular Finnish name used during the modern era?
 * ...that Finnish film director Valentin Vaala was reportedly so disappointed with his first film that he dumped the original camera negatives into the sea?