Added: 25.03.2010 12:46
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Tampere’s heart is difficult to find

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Tampere is a city that you need to explore before you really know what it has to offer. It is very difficult to find the smaller but also significant cultural happenings in Tampere without a local guide. Usually the tourists or travelers just start walking down the Hämeenkatu or visiting the places that Go Tampere – tourist-information-center brochures offer for them. For example, Finlayson might be a historical building but does it really offer anything special other than the few restaurants, cafés or museums, but still it is always talked about.
There should be more varied information based on traveler’s age and interests. The brochures about Tampere are old-fashioned and give distorted image of the city itself.


Tampere has a wide system of buss-timetable light-boards around the city, but especially on the smaller bus stops, they are not in use at all. There is also a problem with the busses’ arriving times being incorrect quite often. This is confusing to the tourists and also locals.
The destination boards inside the busses are also not always in use, or they are broken or do not exist at all in the bus. This is very difficult if you do not know where you have to get off from the bus and are not familiar with the city and its surroundings.

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