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Pispala
Pispala is a city area 2.5 km from the centre of Tampere, Finland. It is located on the northern slope of Pispalanharju, the highest esker in Finland. Together with Pyynikki, Pispala is widely considered the most beautiful area of Tampere and tourists are often guided there for the view and the unique urban design features of the area. A monument to the Finnish poet Lauri Viita is located near the highest point of the ridge and there is a famous landmark in the area called the Pispala Shot Tower, Shot tower ( fi, Pispalan haulitorni.). History Pispala is named after the ''House of Pispa'', which had the obligation to house the bishops during their travel. It was first mentioned in 1492. Pispala was a rural area until as recently as 1869, at the time there were only two farms in the area: Pispala and Provasti. As Tampere was industrialised, Pispala grew without a unified local development plan, resulting in unique building styles and solutions. Specifically factory and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Pispala is a city area 2.5 km from the centre of Tampere, Finland. It is located on the northern slope of Pispalanharju, the highest esker in Finland. Together with Pyynikki, Pispala is widely considered the most beautiful area of Tampere and tourists are often guided there for the view and the unique urban design features of the area. A monument to the Finnish poet Lauri Viita is located near the highest point of the ridge and there is a famous landmark in the area called the Pispala Shot Tower, Shot tower ( fi, Pispalan haulitorni.). History Pispala is named after the ''House of Pispa'', which had the obligation to house the bishops during their travel. It was first mentioned in 1492. Pispala was a rural area until as recently as 1869, at the time there were only two farms in the area: Pispala and Provasti. As Tampere was industrialised, Pispala grew without a unified local development plan, resulting in unique building styles and solutions. Specifically factory and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pispala Shot Tower
Pispala is a city area 2.5 km from the centre of Tampere, Finland. It is located on the northern slope of Pispalanharju, the highest esker in Finland. Together with Pyynikki, Pispala is widely considered the most beautiful area of Tampere and tourists are often guided there for the view and the unique urban design features of the area. A monument to the Finnish poet Lauri Viita is located near the highest point of the ridge and there is a famous landmark in the area called the Shot tower ( fi, Pispalan haulitorni.). History Pispala is named after the ''House of Pispa'', which had the obligation to house the bishops during their travel. It was first mentioned in 1492. Pispala was a rural area until as recently as 1869, at the time there were only two farms in the area: Pispala and Provasti. As Tampere was industrialised, Pispala grew without a unified local development plan, resulting in unique building styles and solutions. Specifically factory and construction workers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population of 341,696; and the metropolitan area, also known as the Tampere sub-region, has a population of 393,941 in an area of . Tampere is the second-largest urban area and third most-populous individual municipality in Finland, after the cities of Helsinki and Espoo, and the most populous Finnish city outside the Greater Helsinki area. Today, Tampere is one of the major urban, economic, and cultural hubs in the whole inland region. Tampere and its environs belong to the historical province of Satakunta. The area belonged to the Häme Province from 1831 to 1997, and over time it has often been considered to belong to Tavastia as a province. For example, in '' Uusi tietosanakirja'' published in the 1960s, the Tampere sub-region is presented as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyhky
Hyhky ( sv, Hycky or ''Hyhkö'') is a district in the northwestern part of Tampere, Finland. It is bordered on the north by Lielahti, on the east by Ala-Pispala, on the south by Kaarila and on the west by Epilä. The village of Hyhky, which originally belonged to Pirkkala, was mentioned in documents as early as 1433. The first mention of Pispala dates back to 1492, when the boundary of the premises of Mikko Pispala and Niilo Huovari was checked. In fact, Pispala is named after Pispa's farm in Hyhky. In the Middle Ages, Hyhky was often a court seat, and at least in 1507, 1509, and 1514 lawspeaker courts were held there. According to the 1540 land register, Hyhky had seven farms. The origin of the name Hyhky is unknown, but the same roots are possibly Hykky in Pälkäne and Hykkö in Tyrvää. Hyhky was transferred from the then Northern Pirkkala to the city of Tampere at the beginning of 1937. The joint town plan of the Hyhky, Kaarila and Epilä districts was confirmed in 1953. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahmela
Tahmela is a district in Tampere, Finland. It is located between Ylä-Pispala and Pyynikki on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi. There is a Varala Sports College in Tahmela. There are rental agricultural plots on the shore of Tahmela, and Kurpitsaliike ry ("the Pumpkin Movement") was founded in 1998 to defend the continuation of land cultivation in Tahmela. Tahmela has a large spring with very clear water until the 1960s, from which more than 600 households in the Pispala and Tahmela areas obtained their drinking water. The water was distributed by a cooperative that operated until 1961. In addition to the spring, the cultural center Hirvitalo is located in Tahmela. Tahmela is named after a croft of the same name located in the area, built around 1870. The croft was located along the current Selininkatu street. Tahmela was transferred from the municipality of Northern Pirkkala to the city of Tampere at the beginning of 1937. Until then, it had been part of the densely populated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olavi Virta
Olavi Virta (originally to 1926 Oskari Olavi Ilmén) (27 February 1915 in Sysmä, Grand Duchy of Finland – 14 July 1972 in Pispala, Tampere, Finland) was a Finnish singer, acclaimed during his time as the "King" of Finnish tango. Between 1939 and 1966 he recorded almost 600 songs, many of which are classics of Finnish popular music, and appeared in many films and theatrical productions. Of his most acclaimed tangos are ''Punatukkaiselle tytölleni'' ("For My Red Haired Girl"), ''Ennen kuolemaa'' ("Before Death"; French: ''Avant de Mourir'') and ''Täysikuu'' ("Full Moon"), while standouts from his other popular songs are ''Poika varjoisalta kujalta'' ("Boy From a Shady Alley"; Italian: ''Guaglione''), ''Hopeinen kuu'' ("Silver Moon"; Italian: ''Guarda Che Luna''), ''Eva'' and ''Kultainen nuoruus'' ("The Golden Youth").' He was also the second tenor of the quartet Kipparikvartetti in the early 1950s. At the beginning of his career he received three gold records for the songs '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannu Salama
Hannu Sulo Salama (born 4 October 1936) is a Finnish author. Biography and work Hannu Salama was born in Kouvola, Kymenlaakso region in Southern Finland. He spent his childhood in the Pispala district of the city of Tampere, in a traditional working-class area with working class politics and culture. Following in the footsteps of his father, Salama first worked as an electrician and a farm hand. Salama's literary debut was called ''Se tavallinen tarina'' (The Usual Story) (1961). In 1966 he was convicted for blasphemy for his book ''Juhannustanssit'' (''Midsummer Dances'') from 1964. He was released on probation, but finally pardoned by the Finnish president Urho Kekkonen in 1968. The new editions of the book were published as censored versions up until 1990. Salama has written short stories as well as novels and won many literary awards in Scandinavia. Despite his working-class background Salama has never admitted to be a working-class novelist. He has maintained his critica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nokia, Finland
Nokia () is a town and a municipality on the banks of the Nokianvirta River (part of the Kokemäki River) in the region of Pirkanmaa, some west of Tampere in Finland. The distance to Tampere Airport from Nokia is using road connections when circling Lake Pyhäjärvi. Its neighboring municipalities are Hämeenkyrö, Pirkkala, Sastamala, Tampere, Vesilahti and Ylöjärvi. As of it has a population of and it is one of the fastest-growing cities in the area; today, Nokia is the largest municipality of Finland by population, and the second largest municipality in Pirkanmaa after Tampere. Etymology and heraldry The origin of the name ''Nokia'' is obscure. In modern Finnish, ''noki'' means soot and ''nokia'' is its inflected plural, although this form of the word is rarely if ever used. The most common theory claims the name actually originates from the archaic Finnish word ''nois'' ( pl. ''nokia'') or ''nokinäätä'' ("soot marten"), meaning sable. After the sable was hunted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Butterfly From Ural
''The Butterfly from Ural'' or ''Far Away from Ural'' ( fi, Uralin perhonen) is a Finnish 2008 animated short film directed by . The film tells the story of former President of Finland Gustaf Mannerheim – although his name is not mentioned in the film – on a journey to Central Asia where he meets a young Kyrgyz boy. Mannerheim takes the boy with him back to Finland where he names him Butterfly. The boy becomes Mannerheim's servant and lover. When the Finnish Civil War starts, Mannerheim abandons his lover in the middle of the battlefield. According to the director Lillqvist, the film is based on a folklore from the Pispala district of Tampere. The film caused a fuss in the Finnish media and evoked discussion about the limits of the freedom of speech and the sexual orientation of Mannerheim. It was nominated the best domestic animation at the Tampere Film Festival in March 2008, and was broadcast by YLE Yleisradio Oy ( Finnish, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauri Viita
Lauri Arvi Viita (17 December 1916 – 22 December 1965) was a poet hailing from the Pispala district of Tampere, Finland. Viita was a verbally talented son of a carpenter who became a self-taught writer. He only published four poetry collections, but they became very popular. He also inspired other writers who had a working-class background. Viita's last creative years were shadowed by a mental illness, and he spent several periods in hospital. Viita wrote mainly traditional poetry with rhymes. In 1950s, he was shadowed by emerging modernists such as Paavo Haavikko and Tuomas Anhava. He played with words and published e.g. a poem where all words started with letter K. Viita was married three times and had seven children. His second wife was famous poet Aila Meriluoto. Viita died in a car accident in December 1965, when the taxi he was in was struck by a truck driven by a drunk driver Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English) is the act of driving under the influ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esker
An esker, eskar, eschar, or os, sometimes called an ''asar'', ''osar'', or ''serpent kame'', is a long, winding ridge of stratified sand and gravel, examples of which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America. Eskers are frequently several kilometres long and, because of their uniform shape, look like railway embankments. Etymology The term ''esker'' is derived from the Irish word ''eiscir'' (Old Irish: ''escir''), which means "ridge or elevation, especially one separating two plains or depressed surfaces". The Irish word was and is used particularly to describe long sinuous ridges, which are now known to be deposits of fluvio-glacial material. The best-known example of such an ''eiscir'' is the '' Eiscir Riada'', which runs nearly the whole width of Ireland from Dublin to Galway, a distance of , and is still closely followed by the main Dublin-Galway road The synonym ''os'' comes from the Swedish word ''ås'', "ridge". Geology Most eske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyynikki
Pyynikki ( sv, Pynike) is a district and a nature reserve in Tampere, Finland. It is located in the Pyynikinharju ridge, between the city center and the western district of Pispala. Pyynikinharju is the highest esker in the world, rising 85 meters above the level of lake Pyhäjärvi. Tampere Circuit was a motorsport race track which ran on public streets of Pyynikki. In 1962 and 1963, the Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix on Tampere Circuit was a race of the Road Racing World Championship A road is a linear way for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, the main function of roads is transportation. There are many types of .... Notable sights * Pyynikki Esker * Pyynikki observation tower * Pyynikki Summer Theatre * Viikinsaari Island References Parks in Tampere {{WesternFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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