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NORDIC STARS / NORSTAR


          (Stockholm - Helsinki - Tampere - Oulu - Rovaniemi)

          DAY 1 STOCKHOLM                   Bridge.                            and its main monuments, such as the
          Arrival at Stockholm airport and transfer   Afternoon free for individual sightseeing.   National Theater, the Market Square,
          to the hotel. Overnight stay.                                        the Temppeliaukio Church, the Uspenski
                                            DAY 3 STOCKHOLM                    Cathedral and the National Opera House.
          DAY 2 STOCKHOLM                   In the morning free time until transfer   Rest of the day at leisure and overnight.
          Breakfast and visit of the city, considered   to the port of Stockholm, where we will
          the pearl of Scandinavia. On a walking   board the overnight ferry to Helsinki,   DAY 5 HELSINKI - TURKU - TAMPERE
          tour you will discover the center of the   Finland.                  Departure after breakfast to Turku, once
          Gamla Stan district, considered the seed                             the most important city in the country
          of the city; the City Hall where the Nobel   DAY 4 HELSINKI          and now a major center of culture in the
          Prize ceremony takes place; the Vasa   Breakfast on board. Arrival at the port of   country. It hosts the Turku Music Festival
          Museum which houses the only ship of   Helsinki and meeting with the local guide   and the “Ruisrock” Rock Festival, the
          the seventeenth century practically intact;   who will take us on a tour of the historical   oldest in the Scandinavian world, as well
          the Royal Palace and the Djurgärdsbron   center of the city to learn about its history   as the only music museum in the country,
                                                                               the Sibelius Museum. In its medieval
                                                                               historic center highlights the Cathedral
                                                                               of the fifteenth century, the Main Square
                                                                               where the old Town Hall is located;
                                                                               the castle of the thirteenth century and
                                                                               several civil buildings of the nineteenth
                                                                               century.

                                                                               We will continue to Tampere, the 3rd city
                                                   Rovaniemi                   of the country. In a short walking tour
                                                                               through the historic center we will see the
                                                                               most famous open-air theater in Finland;
                                                     Oulu
                                                                               the early 20th century cathedral built in
                                                                               blue-gray granite; the Russian Orthodox
                                                                               Church and the Old Church, from 1824
                                                                               made of yellow wood, and finally the
                           SWEDEN                      FINLAND                 Särkänniemi Park.
                                                                               Rest of the day at leisure to enjoy the city
                                                                               and overnight.
                                        Tampere
                                                                               DAY 6 TAMPERE - OULU
                                                                               Today we will continue our journey north,
                             Stockholm     Turku   Helsinki                    arriving in the city of Oulu. Overnight in
                                                                               Oulu.
                                                                               DAY 7 OULU - ROVANIEMI
                                                                               In past centuries an important center of
                                                                               the timber industry and salmon fishing,
                                                                               Oulu is now home to major Finnish
                                                                               technology companies and a renowned

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