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Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki
Hietaniemi Cemetery is one of the main cemeteries in Helsinki, and it is quite lavish.  It is a very pleasant park, and there are all sorts of decorated gravestones in this high-density final resting place.  One interesting note- it seemed a vast majority of the names on the tombstones were Swedish in origin, which I assume must hark back to the Swedish colonization, and presumably, a much higher Swedish ancestry in Helsinki than elsewhere.
©2000, Jeffrey L. Cooper

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