Tampere has Reima Pietila to thank for Tove Jansson’s donation of her entire Moomin archive to Tampere Art Museum because it was through him that Tove and Tuulikki came to know and love the city.

Places to see: the medieval castle, the Turku Cathedral, the Forum Marinum maritime museum and the Turku archipelago, near the city.. Tampere. Located between two lakes with rapids running across ...

Near the rapids, you'll find the Tampere Cathedral - a historical location that is home to Hugo Simberg’s unconventional church art and Lars Sonck’s impressive architecture.

Causing more serious ecclesiastical alarm, in 1907, artist Hugo Simberg decorated Tampere Cathedral in a style that made Lutheran clerics and the congregation consider whitewashing the lot.