Lappi is a

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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 o ...

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, near the

Lake Näsijärvi A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger ...

and the

Kauppi Kauppi is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Emil Kauppi (1865–1930), Finnish composer *Kalle Kauppi (1892–1961), Finnish legal scholar and politician * Waino Kauppi (1898-1932), musician *Raili Kauppi (1920–1995), ...

's park area. About 700 people live there. When talking about Lappi, reference is usually made to the Lapinniemi district. The district is home to the Koukkuniemi's

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, which is one of the largest nursing homes in Europe. There are also

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s in the area (e.g. Tampere Yacht Club) and a

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and

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in an old

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building were completed for the 1990 housing fair. The Lappi district got its name from Lapinniemi, which piers Lake Näsijärvi. The name may refer to early Lappish settlement. Part of the Lappi district is called Käpylä, which refers to the first inhabitant of the area, August Käpynen, a worker who moved there in 1915. The

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for Lappi was confirmed in 1933. The

Naistenlahti Tampella (until 2002 known as Naistenlahti) is a neighbourhood in the northern part of the city center of Tampere, Finland. It consists of the old Tampella factory area, the Armonkallio residential area and the Naistenlahti harbor area. The neigh ...

area, which officially forms one district of Tampere together with the old factory area of Tampella, became the property of the city of Tampere in 1877, at the same time as the city bought the

Kyttälä Kyttälä is a district in Tampere, Finland. It was born in the late 1870s as a working-class neighborhood to the eastern outskirts of the town. As Tampere soon expanded, Kyttälä is now a part of the city center between the Tammerkoski river an ...

area from

Hatanpää Manor Hatanpää Manor ( fi, Hatanpään kartano) was a manor in the area of the current city of Tampere on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi in Pirkanmaa, Finland. It was founded in the 1690s, but the current main building of Hatanpää Manor, designed b ...

. Behind the name of Naistenlahti is a story according to which women on their way from Teisko to

Messukylä Messukylä ( sv, Messukylä, also ) is a former municipality of Finland which was annexed by the city of Tampere in 1947. The medieval stone church (built c. 1540) in Messukylä is the oldest building in Tampere. During the Civil War (1918), Mess ...

Church got ashore here to continue their final journey. The

Finnish Heritage Agency 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 a ...

has classified Lappi's

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area as a nationally significant built cultural environment.Lapin pientaloalue (Tampere, Pirkanmaa) - Finnish Heritage Agency
(in Finnish)

Sources

* Maija Louhivaara: ''Tampereen kadunnimet''. Tampereen museoiden julkaisuja 51, 1999, Tampere. . (in Finnish)

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Pictures of Naistenlahti area
at Arjenhistoria.fi (in Finnish) Sampo {{WesternFinland-geo-stub

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