Visit Tampere Region
Welcome to the Tampere Region!
The Tampere Region, one of the largest growth regions by population (close to half a million) in Finland, is a modern concentration of industry, commerce, services and education.
The region provides its residents with opportunities of work and prosperity, good traffic connections and attractive living conditions in an environment that combines the centrally located towns with clean nature and rural landscapes close at hand.
The City of Tampere
Tampere emerged more than two centuries ago alongside rapids connecting two unspoiled lakes, in settings of great natural beauty.
In summer, the glitter of the lakes surrenders to the hue of the pale, nightless nights. In winter the waters are radiant with snow and ice and gentle in the dusk.
The city born from the power of the rapids is one and the same, but no longer comparable. Modern Tampere is a luminous cultural city of more than 216,000 inhabitants, one of Finland’s largest urban centres and a world-class pioneer of many fields.
Welcome to Tampere, the city of life and light.
Tampere in Brief
- founded by Sweden’s young monarch, Gustavus III, in 1779
- Finland’s third largest city and the largest inland city in the Nordic countries (over 210,000 inhabitants)
- located on an isthmus between lakes Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi in ridge scenery; the Tammerkoski rapids a nationally recognized landscape, awarded lighting at the Keskustori central square
- a monumental industrial history; the Finlayson cotton mill was the first large-scale industrial enterprise in Finland, the Nordic countries’ first electric light was lit in Finlayson’s factory hall
- a centre of leading-edge technology, research, education, culture, sports and business
- shortest day approx. 5 hr 20 min (Dec 22), longest 19 hr 30 min (Jun 21)
- the only thing missing is the sea
Firsts in Tampere
- 1837 a breakthrough in Nordic industrial building, a six-storey factory building
- 1843 Finland’s first paper machine
- 1882 the Nordic countries’ first electric light
- 1900 first locomotive manufactured in Finland
- 1909 first automobile manufactured in Finland
- 1923 Finland’s first public radio broadcast
- 1965 Finland’s first ice hall
- 1974 world’s first NMT call
- 1984 world’s first bioabsorbable implant
- 1991 world’s first GSM call
- 1995 world’s first walking forest machine
- 1996 world’s first Communicator
- 1998 world’s first second-generation Communicator
- 2003 the FogScreen walk-thru display
- 2004 an automated container terminal
- 2006-07 a GMP stem cell product