Kauppatori aka: Salutorget,Helsingin vanha kauppatori

This used to be THE market square in Helsinki and like many other such squares around the world still suffers from a lack of a better name than that. These days of course it isn’t the only one in town any more nor is it helpful in this globalized world to talk in such unspecific terms but to many this is still “the” market square in town and holds a special place in their hearts. My siblings for example talk with much love of the real-cream ice-cream they used to sell here long after they’d stopped selling it in other places in Finland (though sadly they seem to have stopped selling it now) and for all who consider Suomenlinna as home this is of course your doorstep as the ferry there leaves from here.