Inserting a block inside a "static" page

I'm currently trying to learn to use Drupal and I have one question related to it which is important for me (and would like an answer before dwelling deeper into it) and where I haven't found answer yet (perhaps there's a module etc, but haven't found it yet).

Lets say that I have an main page for articles in my website so I create a content with content type Page for it and have it displayed in primary links. But what I'd like to have is a list of the latest articles in that page along with the static content.

As far as I understand I can create a view with Views-module to display the latest content from a content type "Articles" (if I'd create it). Is there any way to define a block to be inside the content page so I could actually display this view in the main page for my articles?

I probably could create own blocks into template for this, lets say header block right above the content or right sidebar just right to content (so it wouldn't be display if there wan't anything for it)? But is there any other solution for this, which would let me to display this kind of content listings inside of a content item?

Any help and ideas are appreciated.