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

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.
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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.
- 01Amuri Museum of Workers' Housing
- 02Art and Craftcenter Verkaranta
- 03Finnish Labour Museum Werstas
- 04Hiekka Art Museum
Home museum of art collector Kustaa Hiekka.
- 05Nootti
- 06Milk Platform Museum
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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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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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Getting to Nekala
- Airports
- Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 67 km · Turku (TKU), 84 km · Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 104 km
- Helsinki (Vantaa) → Nekala144 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · €17–24
- Turku → Nekala141 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · €16–23
- Tampere / Pirkkala → Nekala13 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.
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.
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Next door to Nekala
Nekala is 57 km from Espoo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Leppäkorpi (Nummi)village in Southern Finland, Finland1.8 km