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Oasis
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Oases are typically cool rest places in the heat of sand deserts. But in Helsinki's Arabianranta there is an oasis giving refuge to three lions resting drowsily, exhausted in the sweltering heat, under a warm orange light-just as if in the Sahara.
The gold-coloured, almost 4-metre large, lions are made from cast concrete. The oval on which the lion sculptures rest is of cobble stone providing an ...
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Jan-Magnus Janssonin aukio, Arabianranta
00560 Helsinki
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Updated: 29/4/2024