The Sori Square ( fi, Sorin aukio) is a

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located in the center of

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclo ...

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, in the southern part of the

Kyttälä Kyttälä is a district in Tampere, Finland. It was born in the late 1870s as a working-class neighborhood to the eastern outskirts of the town. As Tampere soon expanded, Kyttälä is now a part of the city center between the Tammerkoski river an ...

district. It is located in the area bounded by the Hatanpää Highway, Suvantokatu,

Tuomiokirkonkatu Tuomiokirkonkatu (literally "Cathedral Street") is a north–south street in the center of Tampere, Finland, which runs through the districts of Jussinkylä and Kyttälä. The street is about a kilometer long. In the north it ends at Lapintie, ...

and Vuolteenkatu. At the eastern end of the square is the

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from 1898. There is a terminus at Tampere Tram Line 1 on the west side. The square was built in the 1980s, and its artistic composition was by sculptor

Harry Kivijärvi Harry Kivijärvi (1931-2010) was a sculptor from Finland. Kivijärvi's most famous works, such as the monument to the memory of president Paasikivi, consist of non-representational forms, sculpted from black stone, whose carefully worked surfaces ...

. In the square is his 10 meter sculpture called ''Pirkka''. Kivijärvi has also designed the area's

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, benches and

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s, as well as a

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-decorated water basin in the northern corner of the square. The work was completed in the autumn of 1987. The name of Sori Square was marked in the

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in 1985. It is based on the old place name ''Sorinahde''; the

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that rises from

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towards Kalevankangas has been called Sorinahde, and the square is located in the middle of the hill.

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Kyttälä Squares in Tampere {{WesternFinland-geo-stub

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