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Tampere tourist information


Tampere tourist information

The city of Tampere lies on an isthmus situated between Lake Näsijärvi, which reaches far to the north, and Lake Pyhäjärvi in the south. The Tammerkoski rapids that run through Tampere connect the two lakes with an elevation drop of 18 metres. In the 7th century people started to gather at this connecting point of two waterways, and in the 18th century the importance of the rapids as a source of hydropower was realized. So it came to be that Tampere was officially founded on the 1st of October in 1779 by King Gustav III of Sweden. During the 19th century Tampere grew rapidly to be an industrial center, and in the latter part of the century the town had almost half of Finland's industrial labour force, earning it the nickname Manchester of the North ? which still lives on in the city's nickname Manse. Most of the industry was centered around the rapids, with the textile and paper industries particularly important. During the 1918 Finnish Civil War Tampere was one of the Red (Social Democratic Party of Finland) strongholds. However, in April 1918 the victorious White forces captured the town after a large battle and seized 10,000 prisoners, summarily executing actual and suspected rebels. In 1927 the first of the factories stopped industrial operations, and city offices later moved into the empty buildings. After 1960 most factories started to grind to a halt, but the buildings were kept. Nowadays central Tampere is characterized by these old red-brick industrial buildings, most of them housing offices, restaurants, and cultural activities.

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