Lempäälä (Swedish: Lembois) is a municipality in southwestern Finland with 22,442 inhabitants (30 June 2015). Lempäälä is located south of the city of Tampere. The municipality covers an area of 307.07 square kilometres (118.56 sq mi) of which 37.51 km2 (14.48 sq mi) is water.
Population: 18,096
Latitude: 61° 19' 0.01" N
Longitude: 23° 45' 0.00" E
The University of Tampere (UTA) (Finnish: Tampereen yliopisto) is a university in Tampere, Finland. It has 15,400 degree students and 2,100 employees. It was originally founded in 1925 in Helsinki as a "Civic College" (Kansalaiskorkeakoulu), and fro…
Tampere University of Technology (TUT) (Finnish: Tampereen teknillinen yliopisto (TTY)) is Finland's second-largest university in engineering sciences.
Tampere–Pirkkala Airport (IATA: TMP, ICAO: EFTP) is located in Pirkkala, 7 NM (13 km; 8.1 mi) south-west of Tampere city centre.
Särkänniemi is an amusement park in Tampere, Finland. The park features an aquarium, a planetarium, a children's zoo, an art museum, an observation tower (Näsinneula), an amusement park, and the world's northernmost dolphinarium. Särkänniemi is the …
Tammerkoski is a channel of rapids in Tampere, Finland. The city of Tampere is located between two lakes, Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi. The difference in altitude between these two is 18 metres (59 ft) and the water flows from Näsijärvi to Pyhäjärvi thro…
Sauna Open Air Metal Festival, shortly Sauna Open Air or just Sauna, has become one of the largest music festivals dedicated only to metal and related styles of music in the Nordic countries. It was first arranged in 2004 and takes place in the Rati…
Hervanta is a large suburb, or satellite city, of Tampere in Finland, located next to Hallila some 10 km south of the city centre.
The Battle of Tampere of the Finnish Civil War was fought in Finland in 1918 between Red and White forces.
Tampere Cathedral (Finnish: Tampereen tuomiokirkko, Swedish: Tammerfors domkyrka) is a Lutheran church in Tampere, Finland, and the seat of the Diocese of Tampere.
Näsinneula is an observation tower in Tampere, Finland, overseeing Lake Näsijärvi. It was built in 1970–1971 and was designed by Pekka Ilveskoski. It is the tallest free-standing structure in Finland and the tallest observation tower in the Nordic c…
Toijala is a former town and municipality of Finland, located some 40 kilometres (25 mi) south of Tampere.
Tampereen Ice Stadium (Finnish: Tampereen jäähalli, often called Hakametsä) is a sports arena in Tampere, Finland. It is primarily used for ice hockey, and is the home arena of Ilves and Tappara of the SM-liiga.
Tammela Stadion is a football stadium in Tampere, Finland. It is currently used mostly for football matches.
Vanajavesi is a rather large lake in Finland. It is part of the Kokemäenjoki basin.
The Tampere railway station is a functionalist building in Tampere, Finland, designed by Eero Seppälä and Otto Flodin, completed in 1936. The 36-metre clock tower was later added because the Finnish railway bureau required it (its total height from …
The Satakunta Air Command (Finnish: Satakunnan Lennosto, abbr. SatLsto; Swedish: Satakunta flygflottilj) is the peace-time Finnish Air Force unit, responsible for the protection of the airspace of western and western part of southern Finland.
Pyhäjärvi is a lake in southern Finland. Although the name means in modern Finnish "holy lake", it probably meant originally "border lake".
Moominvalley (Swedish: Mumindalen, Finnish: Muumilaakso) is situated in the city of Tampere, Finland. In the Moomin Valley Museum you can see original illustrations made by Tove Jansson (the creator of Moomins), 40 miniatures, tableaux about Moomin …