Pirkkala - municipality in the region of Pirkanmaa in Finland

Pirkkala is a municipality in Pirkanmaa, Finland, adjacent to Tampere.

Understand

Get in

National road 3 (E12), here acting as Tampere western bypass, goes through Pirkkala.

By plane

Tampere Airport 📍 is located in Pirkkala, 17 km southwest of the city of Tampere. Finnair has daily flight from Helsinki (35 min). SAS has direct flights from Arlanda Airport most days (one hour). Air Baltic flies from Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Munich, Oslo and Riga. Ryanair flies once a week from London-Stansted.

By train

Nearby Tampere has a railway station. Timetables are available from VR website.

By bus

Get around

See Tampere#Get around for information about bus tickets and fares

By taxi

• Taksi Tampere, Menevä, iTaksi: see Tampere#By taxi
• Smartphone apps: Valopilkku, 02 Taksi

See

• Sankilan kartano, Sankilantie 35 (Bus 65), 61.462438°, 23.591073°, +358 40 511 2798. You can see the original Finnish farmyard animals in their real environment: Finnish horses, rare western-Finnish cattle and eastern-Finnish cattle, ie captive, curious Finnish sheep, country chickens, country cats, Finnish Lapphund and Shetland pony. The farmyard with its summer cafés is open during the summer and there is free access to the area. 2021-04-19

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• Missionary cafe Sirpakka (Lähetystyön kahvila Sirpakka), Koulutie 1, 61.465761°, 23.646509°, +358 40 804 8963. In addition to café services, offers local and ethnic handicrafts and fair trade products. 2022-05-31

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