Pirkkala
Pirkkala is a municipality in Finland, located in the Pirkanmaa region.
Pirkkala is a municipality in Finland, located in the Pirkanmaa region. It lies to the southwest of the regional capital, Tampere. The population of Pirkkala is approximately 21,000, while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately 428,000. It is the 48th most populous municipality in Finland.
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Worth seeing in and around Pirkkala
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Pyhäjärvi
Pyhäjärvi is a lake in southern Finland. Although the name means "holy lake" in modern Finnish, it probably originally meant "border lake".
2.1 km · lake in Pirkanmaa, Finland (near Tampere) · Wikipedia - 02Veska (shopping mall)
Veska is a shopping mall in the Partola district of Pirkkala, Finland. Its original part was completed in 2003 and the expansion part in early 2017.
3.7 km · shopping mall in Pirkkala, Finland · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Pirkkala Old Church
- 02Sankila Manor
- 03Neulalähde
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Things to do
- 01Pereensaaren
Pereensaarentie 43 (on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi), info@pereensaarensauna.fi.
- 02Golf Pirkkala
Vaittintie 95, caddiemaster@golfpirkkala.fi.
- 03Pirkkala Disc Golf Park
Sienimetsäntie 17.
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Where to eat
- 01JJ's BBQ
Palmrothintie 2 (at K-Citymarket Pirkkala), pirkkala@jjsbbq.fi.
- 02Partolan Pizzeria
Nuolialantie 71 (near the border of Tampere), info@partolanpizzeria.fi.
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Getting to Pirkkala
- Airports
- Tampere-Pirkkala (TMP), 6 km · Turku (TKU), 130 km · Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 146 km
- Turku → Pirkkala134 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · €16–23
- Helsinki (Vantaa) → Pirkkala145 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · €18–25
- Vaasa → Pirkkala210 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · €24–34
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Pirkkala
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 Pirkkala. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextIt makes an interesting day trip by train, bus or car.
From Wikivoyage: Tampere, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Pirkkala – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Pirkkala
- Raholacity district in Tampere, Finland3.7 km