Tammela is a district in
Tampere,
Finland, located east of the city centre. Tammela was born since the 1870s as a working-class neighbourhood, today it is especially popular among the students of the nearby
Tampere University. As of 2014, the population of Tammela was 5,646.
Tammela was almost completely destroyed in the 1918
Finnish Civil War Battle of Tampere and also severely damaged in the air raids of
World War II. Some wooden houses from the early 1900s have remained in the so-called Puu-Tammela area in the eastern side of the district. Today Tammela is known of the
Tammelantori Market Square and its ''
mustamakkara''
kiosk
Historically, a kiosk () was a small garden pavilion open on some or all sides common in Iran, Persia, the Indian subcontinent, and in the Ottoman Empire from the 13th century onward. Today, several examples of this type of kiosk still exist ...
s,
and the
Tammela Football Stadium.
References
External links
Official Homepage of the Tammela residents' association
Keskusta (Tampere)
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