Tullintori is a
shopping center
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located in
Tulli Tulli is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alessandro Tulli (born 1982), Italian footballer
* Frank Tulli (born 1944), American former Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
* Giacomo Tulli (born 1987), ...
,
Tampere
Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...
,
Finland
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. The largest of the two owners of the shopping center is Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company, who own 97%.
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(in Finnish) The shopping center contains around 50 shops and numerous cafés and restaurants and a recreational climbing area. The top floors are mainly
office space
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. The annual number of visitors to the center is about 2,5 million. Architecturally, Tullintori is a traditional
arcade
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* Arcade game, a coin-operated video, pinball, electro-mechanical, redemption, etc., game
** Arcade video game, a coin-operated video game
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, glass-covered “colonnade”. It was formed by combining
SOK's
functionalist building, completed in 1930, with a new extension. The Tullintori shopping center was completed in 1990.
Tullintori is located right next to
Tampere Central Station
Tampere Central Station is a functionalist building in Tampere, Finland, designed by Eero Seppälä and Otto Flodin, completed in 1936. The station is one of the most important railway stations in Finland. In 2015, the Tampere Central Station wa ...
.
Parking lot
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s can be found on P-Tullintori and on the deck of Tullintori. The shopping center has access to
Hotel Torni
Hotel Torni () is a historical hotel located in Kamppi, Helsinki, Finland, and a part of the Sokos Hotels hotel chain. When opened in 1931, it became the tallest building in Finland, a position it maintained until the completion of the new Nes ...
and Sokos Hotel Villa.
Sokos Hotel Villa Tampere: Pysäköinti
(in Finnish)
See also
* Koskikeskus (shopping centre)
Koskikeskus is a shopping center in Kyttälä, Tampere, Finland, next to Sokos Hotel Ilves. It was opened in March 1988, when it was the largest shopping center in Finland at the time. The shopping center and the adjacent Hotel Ilves were built ...
* Ratina (shopping centre)
Ratina () is a shopping center in Finland, opened in the heart of Tampere on 19 April 2018, whose construction began in April 2015. Ratina is Tampere's largest shopping center with 53,000 square meters of retail space, offering groceries, fashio ...
References
External links
Tullintori Official Site
Shopping centres in Tampere
Shopping malls established in 1990
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