Tampere (Finland)
Tampere (Finland)
Best City to live in Finland?
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AREA: Tampere
ADDRESS: Tampere, Finland
COUNTRY: Finland
TAMPERE
Best City to live in Finland?
- See Tammerskoski rapid. Climb to the Pyynikki Observation Tower.
- Särkänniemi Amusement park and Näsinneula Observation Tower are also fun place to visit!
- There are many interesting museums (art, video game, spy, moomin, ice hockey etc.) in Tampere!
- Don't forget to taste black sausage (mustamakkara) in Tammelantori square!
HOW TO GET THERE?
Tampere locates about 160 km distance from Helsinki to the up north.
From Helsinki Central Railway Station you will get there easily with train and it takes only about two hour.
You can get there also by bus and they start at Kamppi Center which locates about 400 meter to the west from the Helsinki Central Railway Station.
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SIGHTS
- Tammerkoski Rapid, Tammerkoski, 33100 Tampere, Finland (It connect the Nasijärvi Lake (north) and the Pyhäjärvi Lake (south). Heigh difference between these lakes is about 18 meter.)
- Hämeensilta Bridge, Hämeensilta, 33100 Tampere, Finland (Since 1929)
- Hämeenkatu, Mainstreet, Hämeenkatu 1, 33100 Tampere, Finland (it start front of the Tampere main railway station)
- Central Square, Keskustori 1, 33100 Tampere, Finland
- Central Square Fountain, Keskustorin suihkulähde, Keskustori 1, 33100 Tampere, Finland (Since 1883) (Four Dragon and Four Mermaids)
- Tampere Market Hall, Tampereen kauppahalli, Hämeenkatu 19, 33200 Tampere, Finland (Since 1901)
- Pyynikki Observation Tower, Pyynikin näkötorni, 33230 Tampere, Finland (Since 1929)
- Näsinneula, Observation Tower (134m), Särkanniemi, Laiturikatu 1, 33230 Tampere, Finland (Since 1971)
- Pispala Bullet Tower, Pispalan Haulitorni, Haulikatu 8, 33250 Tampere, Finland (55 meter height, Since 1908)
- Tampere Art Museum, Tampereen taidemuseon, Puutarhakatu 34, 33230 Tampere, Finland
- Moominvalley museum, Muumimuseo, Tamperetalo, Yliopistonkatu 55, 33100 Tampere, Finland (Moomin)
- Vapriikki Museum Center, Vapriikki Museokeskus, Alaverstaanraitti 5, 33101 Tampere, Finland
- Spy Museum, Vakoilumuseo, Satakunnankatu 18, 33210 Tampere, Finland (Spy Museum)
- Finnish Gaming Museum, Suomen pelimuseo, Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland (Video Game Museum)
- Finland Ice Hockey Museum, Suomen Jääkiekkomuseo, Vapriikki Museum Centre, Alaverstaanraitti 5, 33101 Tampere, Finland
- Sara Hildén Art Museum, Sara Hildénin taidemuseo, (Särkänniemi) Laiturikatu 13, 33230 Tampere (Since 1979)
- Museum Milavida, Museo Milavida, Milavidanrinne 8, 33210 Tampere, Finland
- Police Museum, Poliisimuseo, Vaajakatu 2, 33720 Tampere, Finland (free entrance)
- Finnish Boxing Museum, Suomen nyrkkeilymuseo, Aleksanterinkatu 26 B, 33100 Tampere, Finland
- Werstas The Finnish Labour Museum, Työväenmuseo Werstas, Väinö Linnan aukio 8, 33210 Tampere, Finland
- Amuri Museum of Workers’ Housing, Amurin työläismuseokortteli, Satakunnankatu 49, 33230 Tampere, Finland
- Nukke- ja pukumuseo, Hatanpään puistokuja 1, 33900 Tampere, Finland
- Postal Museum, Postimuseo, Alaverstaanraitti 5, 33100 Tampere, Finland
- The Natural History Museum, Tampereen luonnontieteellinen museo, Alaverstaanraitti 5, 33100 Tampere, Finland
- Media Museum Rupriikki, Mediamuseo Rupriikki, Alaverstaanraitti 5, 33100 Tampere, Finland
- Telsko, local history museum, Teiskon museo, kotiseutumuseo, Teiskon kirkkotie 139, 34260 Terälahti, Tampere, Finland
- Lenin Museum, Lenin-museo, Hämeenpuisto 28, 33200 Tampere, Finland
- Mineral Museum, Tampereen Kivimuseo, Hämeenpuisto 20, 33101 Tampere
- Hiekka Art Museum, Hiekan taidemuseo, Pirkankatu 6, 33210 Tampere (Since 1931)
- Emil Aaltonen Museum, Emil Aaltosen museo, Mariankatu 40, 33200 Tampere, Finland
- Gallery Saskia, Galleria Saskia, Pirkankatu 6, 33210 Tampere, Finland
- Lauri Viita Museum, Lauri Viita -museo, Portaanpää 8, 33250 Tampere, Finland
- Särkänniemi Amusement Park, Särkänniemen huvipuisto, Särkanniemi, Laiturikatu 1, 33230 Tampere, Finland (Amusement Park)
- Särkänniemi Aquarium, Akvaario, Särkänniemen huvipuisto, Laiturikatu 1, 33230 Tampere, Finland
- Minigolf, Koulukadun ratagolf, Koulukatu 28, 33200 Tampere, Finland
- Laukontori Market Square, Laukontori, 33200 Tampere, Finland (next to the Pyhäjärvi Lake) (eat traditional black sausage/mustamakkara)
- Ship Cruising at Pyhäjärvi Lake (Start from the Laukontori, Market Square, Tampere, Finland)
- Mustalahti Harbour, Mustalahden satama (Näsijärvi), Paasikivenkatu 2, 33230 Tampere, Finland
- Steamship, S/S Tarjanne (Start from the Mustalahti Harbour, Paasikivenkatu 2, 33230 Tampere, Finland (Since 1908) (Ship Cruising)
- Tammelantori Market Square, Tammelantori, 33500 Tampere, Finland (eat traditional black sausage/mustamakkara)
- Koskikeskus Shopping Center, Hatanpään valtatie 1, 33100 Tampere, Finland
Finnish Civil War | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:46 1 Background
00:02:56 1.1 International politics
00:06:51 1.2 Domestic politics
00:12:50 1.3 February Revolution
00:12:59 1.3.1 Build-up
00:17:31 1.3.2 Contest for leadership
00:21:30 1.4 October Revolution
00:28:14 1.5 Independence of Finland
00:31:45 2 Warfare
00:31:54 2.1 Escalation
00:34:44 2.2 Opposing parties
00:34:54 2.2.1 Red Finland and White Finland
00:40:08 2.2.2 Soldiers and weapons
00:42:39 2.2.3 Red Guards and Soviet troops
00:45:58 2.2.4 White Guards and Sweden's role
00:49:27 2.2.5 German intervention
00:52:32 2.3 Decisive engagements
00:52:41 2.3.1 Battle of Tampere
00:56:09 2.3.2 Battle of Helsinki
00:58:33 2.3.3 Battle of Lahti
00:59:31 2.3.4 Battle of Vyborg
01:00:54 2.4 Red and White terror
01:05:35 2.5 End
01:07:36 3 Aftermath and impact
01:07:46 3.1 Prison camps
01:11:10 3.2 War-torn nation
01:15:49 3.3 Compromise
01:20:06 4 In popular culture
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SUMMARY
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The Finnish Civil War was a conflict in 1918 for the leadership and control of Finland during the country's transition from a Grand Duchy of the Russian Empire to an independent state. The clashes took place in the context of the national, political, and social turmoil caused by World War I (Eastern Front) in Europe. The civil war was fought between the Reds, led by a section of the Social Democratic Party, and the Whites, conducted by the conservative-based Senate and the German Imperial Army. The paramilitary Red Guards, composed of industrial and agrarian workers, controlled the cities and industrial centres of southern Finland. The paramilitary White Guards, composed of farmers, along with middle-class and upper-class social strata, controlled rural central and northern Finland.
In the years before the conflict, Finnish society had experienced rapid population growth, industrialisation, pre-urbanisation and the rise of a comprehensive labour movement. The country's political and governmental systems were in an unstable phase of democratisation and modernisation. The socio-economic condition and education of the population had gradually improved, as well as national thinking and cultural life had awakened.
World War I led to the collapse of the Russian Empire, causing a power vacuum in Finland, and a subsequent struggle for dominance led to militarisation and an escalating crisis between the left-leaning labour movement and the conservatives. The Reds carried out an unsuccessful general offensive in February 1918, supplied with weapons by Soviet Russia. A counteroffensive by the Whites began in March, reinforced by the German Empire's military detachments in April. The decisive engagements were the Battles of Tampere and Vyborg (Finnish: Viipuri; Swedish: Viborg), won by the Whites, and the Battles of Helsinki and Lahti, won by German troops, leading to overall victory for the Whites and the German forces. Political violence became a part of this warfare. Around 12,500 Red prisoners of war died of malnutrition and disease in camps. About 39,000 people, of whom 36,000 were Finns, perished in the conflict.
In the aftermath, the Finns passed from Russian governance to the German sphere of influence with a plan to establish a German-led Finnish monarchy. The scheme was cancelled with the defeat of Germany in World War I and Finland instead emerged as an independent, democratic republic. The Civil War divided the nation for decades. Finnish society was reunited through social compromises based on a long-term culture of moderate politics and religion and the post-war economic recovery.