Three Smiths Statue

Felix Nylund submitted a design for a smith statue for a memorial for Johan Vilhelm Snellman in 1913.

In 1919 he designed a monumental statue with three smiths located on top of a stone pillar ten metres high.

There is a heating system underneath Aleksanterinkatu keeping the street free from snow and ice even in temperatures of -10 degrees Celsius.

[2] Nowadays the statue is annually capped with Santa Claus hats at the end of November at the Wappujoulu event of the University of Helsinki student organisation Limes.

[4][5] According to a survey done by Helsingin Sanomat, most Helsinkians view the location of the statue as the centre point of Helsinki.