Central Museum of Labour

The Steam Engine Museum is the home of the Sulzer steam engine that was used as a power source at the Finlayson Factory. This giant of an engine is the biggest steam engine ever used in Finland.


This engine was manufactured by a Swiss company called Gebruder Sulzer in 1899 and at the beginning of the 20th century it generated energy for the spinnery as well for the new weaving mill.


At the time the Finlayson factory was the biggest factory in Finland (3000 employees).

The Factory gained its energy rather equally from three different sources: water turbines, the Sulzer engine and other steam engines in the Factory.

Central Museum of Labour in Tampere

Finlayson at night!

The visit of Czar Alexander I to the Tammerkoski on September 10th, 1819 had a favourable effect to the founding of the Finlayson Cotton Mill.

Finlayson in Tampere

In the old Finlayson textile mill, Panimoravintola Plevna is the most enjoyable place to dine in Tampere.

Finlayson

The cotton mill industry started spinning in Tampere thanks to James Finlayson. The know-how and expertise of the Finlayson cotton mill soon made it Finland's first large scale industrial company and it became a city within Tampere with its own church, hospital and school.

Finlayson in Tampere

Today Finlayson area is an attractive destination for visitors. Inside of this little city I visited the Central Museum of Labour, the Rupriikki Media Museum and the Spy Museum.

Good Night!

Arts and Crafts Center in Tampere

Tampere Tourist Office

Tampere Tourist Office

All major Finnish towns have a tourist office with helpful, English-speaking staff, English-language brochures and excellent free maps. Most offices publish a mini-guide to their town or region and all have a website (which usually http://www.NameOfTheTown.fi/).

If you are panning to visit some place in Finland, you could send an e-mail to the Tourist Office asking for brochures and free maps. They will answer you sending the required information for your home.

Manchester of the North!

The Swedish King Gustav III signed the founding document of the City of Tampere on 1/10/1779.

Tampere grew and became the main industrial centre of Finland in the 19th century.

The town's industrial nature in the 19th and 20th centuries gave it the nickname 'Manchester of the North.'

Tampere

Most of the Industries have now been transformed into superb cultural centres, bars and restaurants.

Tampere

Tampere Town Hall

Tampere is the biggest Finnish city outside the Helsinki area and the biggest non-coastal Scandinavian city. Tampere is known as the Finnish Manchester because of its history of cotton and steel industry.

Portugal has moved up 2 places in the World Economic Forum's 2005 competitiveness rankings.Finland remains the most competitive economy!

Portugal has moved up 2 places to 22 in the overall rankings.

Finland remains the most competitive economy in the world and tops the rankings for the third consecutive year in The Global Competitiveness Report 2005-2006. The United States is in second position, followed by Sweden, Denmark, Taiwan and Singapore, respectively.

...Finland:)

This is my first international post:) I came to Finland to work in a project during a couple of months. During these months I'm going to publish in English, so everyone can understand me:)

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