Pispala

[2] Ala-Pispala ("Lower Pispala") borders the Tampere-Pori railway in the north, Ylä-Pispala in the east, Lake Pyhäjärvi in the south and Hyhky in the west.

These include Lauri Viita, Olavi Virta, Mikko Alatalo, Hannu Salama, Seela Sella, Keith Armstrong, Aaro Hellaakoski.

The only Finnish writer awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature, F. E. Sillanpää located his novel Hiltu ja Ragnar (1923) − which the author considered his best work, in Pispala.

More recently it has featured as a main setting for the events in The Butterfly from Ural (Finnish: Uralin perhonen) animated short film directed by Katariina Lillqvist in 2008.

Also found in Pispala is Kurpitsatalo ("Pumpkin House") a community gardening project that celebrates the cycle of the year with traditional pagan festivals, music and also has various allotments.

Today Pispala has a vibrant artivist atmosphere and has much in kin with other bohemian arts areas such as Užupis, Montmartre, Greenwich Village or Freetown Christiania.