Helsingin päärautatieasema

This guide to Helsingin paarautatieasema follows the four granite giants standing guard at its entrance, and the night in 2017 when the state railway bolted rock star masks over their stone faces for a Kiss concert. You'll hear how an ongoing costume campaign since 2002 has dressed them for every season, and how a gardener named Jalmari Lehtinen ended up modeling their muscular forms. It also traces architect Eliel Saarinen's rocky reception when he first unveiled the station's design. Look up at the giants as you listen.