City reception cancelled due to renovation

The Tampere City Hall is under renovation.

This year, the city of Tampere is not arranging the traditional City Hall reception for festival guests. The reason is that the building is under a complete renovation. The City Hall is being restored both inside and outside.

"The surfaces and the technology will be renewed. The City Hall was not in a bad condition, but it was last renovated in 1966", explains the project manager Jukka Harjula from the City Premises Management Department.

The renovation costs 3.5 million euros, and is supposed to be done by Tampere Day, which this year is celebrated on October 3.

The City Hall has the most elegant reception rooms in the city and the city didn’t want to arrange the reception in any other premises.