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Interesting places in Tallinn:Tallinn (recent historical name: Reval) is the capital city and main seaport of Estonia. It is located on Estonia's north coast to the Gulf of Finland, 80 kilometres south of Helsinki.
The Old City
Riigikogu
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Tallinn's prime attraction is the excellently preserved Old City , built in the 15-17th centuries. The compact area is best explored on foot. In addition to the few spots listed below check out the city's Official Tourism site where detailed and colourful sightseeing overview is provided.
- Start your walk from Viru Gate , the entrance to the street of the same name, which is now Tallinn's trendiest shopping drag.
- Head up to Raekoja plats, the square in the heart of the Old City, ringed with cafes and restaurants. The Raekoda itself, built in 1371, dominates the square.
- From the square, continue up the hill along Pikk street and Pikk jalg through the gate tower (1380) to Toompea, the site of the Danish castle that founded the city in 1219. Rebuilt in the 18th century, part of the castle now houses the Riigikogu, Estonia's Parliament. Other notable buildings in the area include the distinctive Russian Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and the Lutheran Toomkirik, the oldest church in Tallinn.
Outside the Old City
- Museum of occupations featuring the life conditions under Soviet and Nazi regimes. Toompea str. 8
- Tallinn Zoo is enormous land area holding among its live exhibits "World's best collections of mountain goats and sheep", which means there's a lot of them. Tallinn Zoo is truly defying the realities of a relative modest town, featuring all the elephants and crocodiles a visitor would expect to see in a big city's zoo as well as breathtaking maze of lake-size ponds hosting birds in summertime.
- Paldiski mnt. 145, stop "Zoo".
- Bus 22 and 46 from Vabaduse väljak
- Bus 21 and trolley 7 from Balti jaam(where the trains arrive)
- Trolley 6 from Kaubamaja.
- Paldiski mnt. 145, stop "Zoo".
- City Center with 19.century and modern structures.
- Kadriorg is a beautyful and rich sea-side resort district, mostly with wooden buildings from the 18.-20. century and 20.century Art Deco and Functionalist structures. It also includes the baroque pearl of Estonia, the Kadriorg Palace and Garden. East from Center
- The Kadriorg Palace is simply an imperial Russian Summer Residence built by Italian architect Niccolo Michetti for tsar Peter the Great in 1718 and is situated in a 90 ha (222 acre) park in the eastern part of the city. The tsar himself - a typical mysterious Russian soul - preferred to stay in a modest house nearby. This event signified the beginning of Tallinn's fame as a summer resourt for noble and rich of Russia for most part of the 18th and 19th centuries. Currently the palace is housing some painting collections and other art. A part of the complex is nowadays occupied by the Office of the President and is out of reach. Weizenbergi 37
- Open Air Museum showing 72 buildings of, as the official site describes, "Estonian vernacular architecture and village milieu" of the tsarist time in a dark, dense forest. Get a picture about the life and its hardship in the old times...
- Vabaõhumuuseumi str. 12, stop Rocca al Mare
- Bus 21/21B from Balti jaam(where the trains arrive)
- Bus 21A from Väike-Õismäe.
- Vabaõhumuuseumi str. 12, stop Rocca al Mare
- Holy Birgitta Monastery , situated in picturesque Pirita beach area, some 5 km (3 mi) from the city center is a monastery (and a guest house operated by the nuns) of Scandinavian female saint as well as a landmark of 16th century catacombs and ruins.
- Patarei (Battery) Prison , is the most recent and not yet well-developed historical attraction. Both a cannon fortress built around 1840 to protect the city from the sea-born attacks and notorious USSR prison, which ceazed operations only in 2004. Currently is offering "jail tours" up to 5 hours in length, which include single and torture cells, prison meal and, of course, execution. Kalaranna 2
- Tallinn TV Tower , is a 314metres high free-standing structure with an observation deck on the 21st floor, which with it's 170 metres is the highest in Northern Europe. It offer spectacular views across Tallinn area and even to Finland with clear days. Kloostrimetsa 58a
- Kalamaja, is the oldest suburb of Tallinn, dating back to the 14. century. It was probably inhabited by fishermen (Kalamaja means Fish house). The current wooden buildings are from the 19. century until the Soviet times, mostly the houses of workers. North-west from Old City.
- The Rottermann quarter is a industrial district between the City and the Tallinn Port. The buildings are from the 19. and 20.century, with motifs of Art Nouveau and Historitsism.
- KUMU or National Art Museum, opened in February 2006. Not much known about the content, which almost 50,000 m² (538,196 ft²) complex will be holding, but in the enterior a cyclopic house, partly cut out of limestone rock, is highly visible. Weizenbergi 37/Valge 1
- The Song Grounds huge Modernism structure, where the Song Festivals, numbering 34 000 singers and dancers (2004) in addition to masses of viewers take place every four years .
- Pirita district with forest parks, Botanic Gardens and Metsakalmistu, the last resting place of well-known Estonians.
- Many monuments and museums
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KUMU - Art Museum
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About the Museum Art Museum of Estonia was founded on November 17th, 1919, but it was not until 1921 that it got its first permanent building – the Kadriorg Palace, built in the 18th century. In 1929 the palace was expropriated from the Art Museum in order to rebuild it as the residence of the President of Estonia. The Art Museum of Estonia was housed in several different temporary spaces, until it moved back to the palace in 1946. In September, 1991 the Kadriorg Palace was closed, because it had totally deteriorated by then. At the end of the year the Supreme Council of the Republic of Estonia decided to guarantee the construction of a new building for the Art Museum of Estonia in Kadriorg. Untill then the Knighthood House at Toompea Hill served as the temporary main building of the Art Museum of Estonia. The exhibition there was opened on April 1, 1993. Art Museum of Estonia premanently closed down the exhibitions in that building in October 2005. At the end of the 1970s, in the 1980s the first branches of the Art Museum of Estonia were founded. Starting from the 1995 all the branches offer different educational programmes for children and young people. In 1996 the exhibition hall on the first floor of Rotermann Salt Storage was opened, this branch was closed in May 2005. In summer 2000 the restored Kadriorg Palace was opened, but not as the main building of the Art Museum of Estonia, but as a branch. Kadriorg Art Museum now exhibits the foreign art collection of the Art Museum of Estonia. At present there are five active branches of the Art Museum of Estonia: Kadriorg Art Museum (Kadriorg Palace and Mikkel Museum), Niguliste Museum, Adamson-Eric Museum, Kristjan Raud House Museum and Kumu Art Museum (the new main building of the Art Museum of Estonia) For the first time during its nearly 100-year-old history, the Art Museum of Estonia has a building that both meets the museum's requirements and is worthy of Estonian art in its collections. Kumu Art Museum is a multifunctional art museum that includes exhibition halls, an auditorium that offers diverse possibilities, and an education centre for children and art lovers of all ages.
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