Walking around Tampere City Centre, August 2021, Finland. Tampere is a city in Pirkanmaa in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the second-largest urban area and third most-populous individual municipality in Finland, after the cities of Helsinki and Espoo and the most populous Finnish city outside the Greater Helsinki area.

Tampere was granted full city rights 1779. Tampere grew as a major market town and industrial centre in the 19th century; the industrialization of Tampere was greatly influenced by the Finlayson textile factory, founded in 1820. Other notable industries that followed Finlayson's success in the 1800s were Tampella blast furnace, machine factory and flax mill, Frenckell paper mill, and Tampere broadcloth factory. The world-famous Nokia Corporation, a multinational telecommunication company, also started in the Tammerkoski area; company's history dates from 1865.

00:00 Intro
00:12 Walk begins at Itsenäisyydenkatu street
3:44 Hotel Torni, the tallest hotel building (25-storey) in Finland
5:22 Walking the tunnel under the railways
6:25 Tampere railway station
7:07 Hämeenkatu main street
7:50 Trams on their test rides, just before it started operating in 9 August
11:54 Hämeensilta bridge and Tammerkoski, a channel of rapids
14:24 Tampereen teatteri / The Tampere Theatre
15:11 Tampere Central Square (Keskustori)
15:28 The Old Church (Vanha kirkko) belfry, finished in 1828
17:12 The Renaissance Revival style Raatihuone (City Hall), finished in 1890
18:20 Continuing Hämeenkatu street
21:07 Näsilinnankatu street
22:54 Puutarhakatu street
25:34 Aleksis Kiven katu street
27:05 Entering old Finlayson textile mill/factory area
29:52 Polttimonkatu street
30:58 "Palatsinraitin silta" bridge and Finlaysonin palatsi building from 1899
31:37 Tammerkoski and historical factories
34:21 Museokeskus Vapriikki (Museum Centre)
34:55 Kelloportinkatu street
37:26 Työnpuisto park
38:15 Tammerkoski and Tampella factory
40:28 Over the dam bridge (Patosilta)
40:53 Historical Frenckell papermill buildings, first papermill in Finland (now defunct)
43:19 Walking next to Tammerkoski in Kirjastonpuisto park
43:59 Frenckell papermill pipe from 1875-1876
45:04 Joutsenet statue from 1938 by Jussi Mäntynen
46:12 Back to Hämeensilta bridge
47:38 Kyttälänpuisto and Koskipuisto parks
49:20 Virvatulet statue from 1971 by Aimo Tukiainen
50:35 Hotel Tammer from 1929 and Tammerinpuisto park
51:51 Pellavatehtaankatu street
52:54 Satakunnankatu street
53:42 Tuomiokirkonpuisto park
54:19 Cathedral of Tampere, designed by Lars Sonck, completed in 1907
55:16 Cathedral frescoes 1905-1906 by symbolist painter Hugo Simberg
56:48 Outside cathedral

The approximate route:
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/61.49...

Shot with GoPro in 4K.

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