Hotel Kämp

Finland's national salon, the place where composers, politicians, and revolutionaries have gathered since 1887, often at the same bar, occasionally at the same table. Sibelius was a regular. Mannerheim, the architect of Finnish independence, frequented the hotel throughout his long and eventful career. During the Finnish Civil War, the building changed hands between the Reds and the Whites, an unusually dramatic entry on any grand hotel's CV. 179 rooms on the Esplanadi, Helsinki's most elegant boulevard, and a Mirror Bar that has served as the epicentre of Finnish cultural life for well over a century.