Tallinn Travel Guide
Tallinn, Estonia’s compact, buzzing capital, with its enchanting heart surrounded by medieval walls, has been shaped by nearly a millennium of outside influence. While the fairytale Old Town has become the ideal weekend getaway for city-break tourists, the Estonian capital’s growing importance as a regional centre for business, arts and technology has provided it with a go-ahead contemporary feel coupled with bags of hedonistic energy.
The heart of Tallinn is the Old Town, still largely enclosed by the city’s medieval walls. At its centre is the Raekoja plats, the historic marketplace, above which looms Toompea, the hilltop stronghold of the German knights who controlled the city during the Middle Ages. East of the city centre there are several places worth a visit, such as Kadriorg Park, a peaceful wooded area with a cluster of historic buildings, and the forested island of Aegna.
Tallinn
- Raekoja platschevron_right
- Church of the Holy Ghost and St Nicholas’s Churchchevron_right
- Toompea and the Aleksander Nevsky Cathedralchevron_right
- Kiek-in-de-Kök and Bastion Tunnelschevron_right
- The Museum of Occupationschevron_right
- Pikk and aroundchevron_right
- St Olaf’s Churchchevron_right
- The Maritime Museumchevron_right
- Kadriorg Parkchevron_right
- Aegna Islandchevron_right
- The Cultural Kilometre and Patarei Prisonchevron_right
- The Air Harbourchevron_right
- The city wallschevron_right
- Telliskivi Creative Citychevron_right
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