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Tammela

Tammela is a district in , , located east of the city centre. Tammela was born in the 1870s as a working-class neighbourhood, today it is especially popular among the students of the nearby Tampere University.
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  • Type: Suburb with 5,960 residents
  • Description: area consisting of two city districts in Tampere, Finland
  • Also known as: “Tammela, Tampere” and “XVI kaupunginosa (Tammela)”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tampere Central Station and Tampere Cathedral.

Railway station
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a functionalist building in , , designed by Eero Seppälä and Otto Flodin, completed in 1936. The station is one of the most important railway stations in Finland.

Church
Photo: Arto J, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a Lutheran church in , Finland, and the seat of the Diocese of Tampere. The building was designed in the National Romantic style by Lars Sonck, and built between 1902 and 1907.

Stadium
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tampere is the third largest city in Finland with around 260,000 inhabitants, and around 410,000 in the metropolitan area. Located 170 km north of the Finnish coastal capital , it is also the most populous inland town in the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Osmonmäki and Tulli.

Suburb
Photo: Cryonic07, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a district in the center of , . The immediate neighbors of the area are Tammela, , and . There are apartment buildings in the area, but also hundred-year-old wooden buildings.

Suburb
is a district in the center of , . It takes its name from the Customs House completed in 1901 and the associated Pakkahuone packing house.

Suburb
Photo: Kallerna, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a district of , . The district, formerly known as Tammelan vainio, is located east of the Tammela and Tulli districts. To the north is the district, to the east are and , to the south is .

Tammela

Latitude
61.50175° or 61° 30′ 6″ north
Longitude
23.78044° or 23° 46′ 50″ east
Population
5,960
Elevation
116 metres (381 feet)
Open location code
9GH5GQ2J+P5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4397513933
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6930892
Wiki­data ID
Q18658632
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In Other Languages

From Finnish to Swedish—“Tammela” goes by many names.
  • Finnish: “Tammela”
  • French: “Tammela”
  • Japanese: “タンメラ”
  • Russian: “Таммела”
  • Swedish: “Tammela”
  • “Tammela”
  • “Tammela (Tampere)”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tammela”. Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 4.0.