Lappi is a

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Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

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, near the

Lake Näsijärvi A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie completely on land and are separate from t ...

and the Kauppi'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 a ...

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

Messukylä 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), Messukylä was the ...

Church got ashore here to continue their final journey. The

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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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External links

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

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