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Nekala

Nekala is a neighbourhood in the district of Iides in the city of Tampere, Finland.

Nekala
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The place

Nekala is a neighbourhood in the district of Iides in the city of Tampere, Finland. The area has one of Finland's biggest allotment gardens.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Most of Tampere's museums concentrate on its industrial history. Kids will get a kick out of the Moomin Valley and the Spy Museum.

  1. 01
    Amuri Museum of Workers' Housing
  2. 02
    Art and Craftcenter Verkaranta
  3. 03
    Finnish Labour Museum Werstas
  4. 04
    Hiekka Art Museum

    Home museum of art collector Kustaa Hiekka.

  5. 05
    Nootti
  6. 06
    Milk Platform Museum

From Wikivoyage: Nekala, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Fishing. You can fish at the Tammerkoski rapids that run right through the city centre. You must purchase a fishing permit from a nearby R-kioski (Hatanpään valtatie 2), tourist office (Verkatehtaankatu 2) or a vending machine at the wall of restaurant Rosso. You may catch at most three salmonoids a day, whitefish not included. €4 for 4 hours, €4.50 for full day. Guided bus tour.

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Eat

Where to eat

Tampere's most famous dish is black sausage (mustamakkara), made from pig blood, minced pork and rye. Despite the intimidating pitch-black appearance, the taste is rather mild and fans of English black pudding will feel right at home.

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Go there

Getting to Nekala

Airports
Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 67 km · Turku (TKU), 84 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 104 km
  • Helsinki (Vantaa) → Nekala
    144 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · €17–24
  • Turku → Nekala
    141 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €16–23
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Nekala
    13 km · quickest by road, 30 min · €1.5–2
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nekala

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nekala. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    84 km
  2. 02109 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    132 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    167 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    217 km

If you know how people move in Nekala – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Nekala

Nekala is 57 km from Espoo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.