Tampere

Trivia

• A newer, but less common, nickname for Tampere is Nääsville, a portmanteau between the Tamperean dialect word nääs (meaning something like "you know") and the American city of Nashville.
• A local food speciality is mustamakkara, which resembles the blood sausage of northern England.
• "Manserock" means rock music originating from Tampere.
• The asteroid 1497 Tampere was named after the city by its discoverer, the Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä.