Radisson Blu Grand Hotel Tammer is a historic hotel built in 1929, situated near

Tammerkoski 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 and the water flows from Näsijärvi to Pyhäjärvi through t ...

rapids in central

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History

The Hotel Tammer is one of Finland's oldest operating hotels. The building is listed as a part of Tammerkoski national heritage area by the

Finnish National Board of Antiquities The Finnish Heritage Agency ( fi, Museovirasto, sv, Museiverket), previously known in English as the National Board of Antiquities, preserves Finland's material cultural heritage: collects, studies and distributes knowledge of it. The agency is ...

.Finnish Board of Antiquities: Rakennettu kulttuuriympäristö. Valtakunnallisesti merkittävät kulttuurihistorialliset ympäristöt. (in finnish) , ISSN 1236-6439. Built in neo-classical style and designed by town architect

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, it was ready to open just in time for the 150th birthday of Tampere in fall 1929. A tragic event, sinking of steamer

SS Kuru SS ''Kuru'' was a steam ship which sank on 7 September 1929 in the lake Näsijärvi, in Tampere, Finland. The sinking is still the most severe maritime disaster in Finnish lakes or rivers. It led to the loss of 136 lives, according to the passeng ...

in lake

Näsijärvi Näsijärvi () is a lake above sea level, in the Pirkanmaa region of southern Finland. Näsijärvi is the biggest lake in the Tampere area at in size. The city of Tampere was built along the Tammerkoski rapids, through which the lake drains int ...

, cancelled all festivities. The depression years in the beginning of 1930s drove Hotel Tammer into financial trouble. At the end of the 1930s a better economic situation saved the hotel.Raimo Seppälä, Grand Hotel Tammer Lauri Törni porttikielto Hotelli Tammer

During its history Hotel Tammer has hosted many famous guests including the Finnish marshal

Gustaf Mannerheim Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (, ; 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military leader and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as comma ...

and the Russian astronaut

Yuri Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin; Gagarin's first name is sometimes transliterated as ''Yuriy'', ''Youri'', or ''Yury''. (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Tr ...

. Also

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in literature

Frans Emil Sillanpää Frans is an Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish given name, sometimes as a short form of ''François''. One cognate of Frans in English is '' Francis''. Given name * Frans van Aarssens (1572–1641), Dutch diplo ...

was a frequent guest. The hotel has also been portrayed in books and films. Some of the events in

Arto Paasilinna Arto Tapio Paasilinna (, approximately ; 20 April 1942 – 15 October 2018) was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists,exVirtual Finland, 2007 Archived at Wayback Machine. he w ...

s novel ''

Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä ''Elämä lyhyt, Rytkönen pitkä'' ("Life short, Rytkönen long") is a 1991 Finnish novel by Arto Paasilinna, While farcical throughout, from the title's twist on the original saying onwards, it has a somewhat elegiac mood, with a constant und ...

'' were set in the hotel. Also scenes for a film adaptation of the novel were filmed in Hotel Tammer.

Restaurant

Chaine des Rotisseurs restaurant Tammer is located in ground floor of the building. In summertime food is served in terrace restaurant called "Tammerin puisto".

References

Sources

Hotel Tammer homepage

External links

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Radisson Blu Grand Hotel Tammer
– Official Site (in English) Hotels in Tampere Hotels established in 1929 Kyttälä {{Finland-hotel-struct-stub