49 Facts About Tampere

Tampere is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland.

Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries.

Tampere is the second-largest urban area and third most-populous individual municipality in Finland, after the cities of Helsinki and Espoo, and the most populous Finnish city outside the Greater Helsinki area.

Today, Tampere is one of the major urban, economic, and cultural hubs in the whole inland region.

For example, in Uusi tietosanakirja published in the 1960s, the Tampere sub-region is presented as part of the then Tavastia Province.

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Tampere became the center of Pirkanmaa, and in the early days of the province, Tammermaa was used several times in its early days - for example, in the Suomi-kasikirja published in 1968.

Also, Tampere has been officially declared the "Sauna Capital of the World", because it has the most public saunas in the world.

Tampere serves as an important transit route for three Finnish highways: Highway 3, Highway 9 and Highway 12.

Tampere ranked 26th in the list of 446 cities in the world's hipster cities, and it has often been rated as the most popular city in Finland.

The Finnish word for oak, tammi, features in the speculation, although Tampere is situated outside the natural distribution range of the European oak.

Tampere grew as a major market town and industrial centre in the 19th century; the industrialization of Tampere was greatly influenced by the Finlayson textile factory, founded in 1820 by the Scottish industrialist James Finlayson.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Tampere was a city of workers and women, with a third of the population being factory workers and more than half women.

The construction of the sewerage and water supply network and the establishment of electric lighting were further steps towards modernisation; regarding the latter, Tampere was the first Nordic city to introduce electric lights for general use in 1882.

Tampere was the centre of many important political events in the early 20th century; for example, the 1905 conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, was held at the Tampere Workers' Hall, where it was decided, among other things, to launch an armed uprising, which eventually led to the October 1917 revolution in the Russian Empire.

In 1918, after Finland had gained independence, Tampere played a major role, being one of the strategically important sites for the Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic during the Civil War in Finland ; the city was the most important industrial city in Finland at the beginning of the 20th century, marked by a huge working population.

Tampere was a Red stronghold during the war, with Hugo Salmela in command.

The reason for the bombing of Tampere was that the city was an important railway junction, and housed the State Aircraft Factory and the Tampella factory, which manufactured munitions and weapons, including grenade launchers.

Tampere was long known for its textile and metal industries, but these have been largely replaced by information technology and telecommunications during the 1990s.

At the turn of the 1990s, Tampere's industry underwent a major structural change, as the production of Tampella's and Tampere's textile industry in particular was heavily focused on bilateral trade with the Soviet Union, but when it collapsed in 1991 the companies lost their main customers.

Tampere is part of the Pirkanmaa region and is surrounded by the municipalities of Kangasala, Lempaala, Nokia, Orivesi, Pirkkala, Ruovesi, and Ylojarvi.

The northernmost point of Tampere is located in the Vankavesi fjard of Teisko, the southernmost at the eastern end of Lake Hervanta, the easternmost at the northeast corner of Lake Paalijarvi of Teisko and the westernmost at the southeast corner of Lake Haukijarvi near the borders of Ylojarvi and Nokia.

Tampere region is situated in the Kokemaki River drainage basin, which discharges into the Bothnian Sea through river which flows through Pori, the capital of Satakunta region.

The bedrock of Tampere consists of mica shale and migmatite, and its building stone deposits are diverse: in addition to traditional granite, there is an abundance of quartz diorite, tonalite, mica shale and mica gneiss.

One of the most notable geographical features in Tampere is the Pyynikki Ridge, a large esker formed from moraine during the Weichselian glaciation.

The traffic center of Tampere is the intersection of Itsenaisyydenkatu, Teiskontie, Sammonkatu, Kalevanpuisto park street, and Kaleva and Liisankallio districts.

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City of Tampere is divided into seven subdivisions, each of which includes the many districts and their suburbs.

However, the statistical areas made for Tampere's statistics do not fully correspond to the Tampere district division or the residents' perception of the districts, as the Amuri, Kyttala and Tammela districts, for example, are divided into two parts corresponding to the official district division, and in addition to this, Liisankallio and Kalevanrinne are often considered to belong to the Kaleva district.

The Gothic Revival buildings in Tampere that emerged from neoclassicism are the new Messukyla Church and the Alexander Church, and the Renaissance Revival buildings are the Hatanpaa Manor, the Tampere City Hall, the Ruuskanen House and Nasilinna.

Tampere is headquarters for Bronto Skylift, an aerial rescue and aerial work platform manufacturer.

Kaarina and Tampere are the only monolingual Finnish-speaking municipalities with a separate Swedish-speaking congregation.

Tampere is a strong media city, as the television center in Tohloppi and Ristimaki districts has had a nationwide Yle TV2 television channel since the 1970s, and Finnish radio, for example, began in Tampere when Arvi Hauvonen founded the first broadcasting station in 1923.

In 2014, Aamulehti, which was published in Tampere and was founded in 1881, was the third largest newspaper in Finland in terms of circulation, after Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat.

Newer Tampere tradition are munkki, fresh sugary doughnuts that are sold in several cafes around Tampere, but most traditionally in Pyynikki observation tower.

Tampere is home to the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, which is one of only two full-sized symphony orchestras in Finland; the other one is located in Helsinki.

The Tampere Floral Festival is an annual event, held each Summer.

Manserock became a general term for rock music from Tampere, which was essentially rock music with Finnish lyrics.

One Lutheran church in Tampere is Finlayson Church in the district by the same name.

Tampere has a variety of other religious services spanning from traditional to charismatic.

Tampere ostensibly has a long-standing mutual feud with the city of Turku, the first capital of Finland, and they tend to compete for the title of being the "second grand city of Finland" after Helsinki.

Tampere is well known as a food destination because of its food culture.

Since 1997, students at Tampere have made annual excursions to Turku to jump on the market square, doing their part to undo the post-glacial rebound and push the city back into the Baltic Sea.

Tampere has at least seven hotels, the most noteworthy of which are Hotel Tammer, Hotel Ilves, and Hotel Torni, the tallest hotel building in Finland.

The Holiday Club Tampere spa is located in the Lapinniemi district on the shores of Lake Nasijarvi.

Tampere is home to one of the last museums in the world dedicated to Vladimir Lenin.

Tampere Saints is the American football club in the city, that won division 2 in 2015 and plays in the Maple League in summer 2017.

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Tampere has a baseball and softball club, the Tampere Tigers, which plays in the top division of Finnish baseball.

Tampere hosted some of the preliminaries for the 1952 Summer Olympics, the 1965 World Ice Hockey Championships and was co-host of the EuroBasket 1967.

In 1977, Tampere hosted the World Rowing Junior Championships and in 1995 the Senior World Rowing Championships.

Tampere is an important railroad hub in Finland and there are direct railroad connections to, for example, Helsinki, Turku and the Port of Turku, Oulu, Jyvaskyla, and Pori.