Tampere Map, Finland

Tampere Nightlife

One of the ways in which this manifests itself is the fact that there are many terraces available for people to use in Tampere.  To see evidence of this, all you have to do is look around when the first warmer days of spring arrive and you will see restaurants setting up chairs and tables outside on terraces that have been built into restaurants, bars, pubs and cafes.  All of these terraces are fully used during the... read more

Tampere Sightseeing

Staying on the natural theme, one final place that is worth visiting in Tampere is the Adventure Park.  This handy place is part museum, part restaurant and part Adventure Park, with dolphins available for people to watch and interact with.  The restaurant part is located at the top of a tower and revolves, allowing you to gain a nice look out over the city of Tampere while you wait for your meal to be delivered to... read more

Tampere Travel Guide

In terms of getting to the city however, Tampere is a bit too remote to allow you to walk there.  Fortunately, there is an airport in Tampere known as the Tampere-Pirkkala Airport that has international flights going to London, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Riga, Frankfurt, Milan, Dublin and Bremen.  Most of those flights are flown by Ryanair, the famous European discount airline which calls Tampere its hub of operations in... read more

Tampere History

With the massive power base that the city was able to support, thanks to the location of the rapids, Tampere quickly became one of the major industrial cities of Finland during the 19th century.  In fact, there was one decade during the second half of the 1800s that Tampere had almost half of the industrial workers of the entire nation and for this reason, it was nicknamed Manchester of the North.  If you hear the... read more