Tennispalatsi – Always time for movies!

In winter you may feel overloaded with the darkness in Helsinki. The city offers quite a lot of indoor spots to explore. Tennispalatsi is one of my favourite. Tennispalatsi means Tennis Palace in English. Originally this building was built in 1938 in preparation for the 1940 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki.

It started to operate as a movie theater in February 1999 and it is operated by Finnkino.

Finnkino can be almost called a monopoly when it comes to movie theaters. It operates 15 cinemas in 11 of the largest cities in Finland, with a total of 89 screens. In Helsinki Finnkino has four cinemas and they are called Kinoplatsi, Maxim, Bristol and Tennispalatsi.

At Tennispalatsi you’lll find a total of 14 movie halls – each hall having the same comfy chairs and pleasant visibility to the screen.

But… Tennispalatsi 1 has the largest movie screen in Scandinavia! The size of this giant screen is 184,8 square meters!!! It’s just an amazing feeling to watch movies on this gigantic screen. Now they’re even showing 3D movies in Tennispalatsi 1.

So there are many reasons to visit this movie palace. Book a ticket to the movie they are showing in Tennispalatsi 1. Check out the awesome functionalist building. Perhaps before or after the movies visit the Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace located in the same building.

P.S if you are not into movies – no worries. They also show the famous New York Metropolitan Opera Live HD cast! Check out the info here.