The Tallinn City Tour Hop On Hop Off buses are a great way for exploring Tallinn. You will see the city with the help of audioguides (10 different languages) in London-style doubledeckers. Between stops, you can…
Tallinn City Tour Hop On Hop Off is the perfect way to explore Tallinn. The double-decker buses are fitted with audio guides in 10 languages.The Red Line, which focuses on the history of the city centre,…
The building of Estonian Drama Theatre is the oldest theatre in Estonia (1910) that has been preserved in its original form. The Nordic Art Nouveau building was designed by architects Nikolai Vassilyev and Aleksei Bubyr from…
Designed by A. Lindgren and W. Lönn and completed in 1913, the art nouveau/classicist Estonia theatre and opera house was the largest building of its kind in Tallinn at the time. One of its two…
The monument erected in honour of Amandus Adamson (1855–1929), a famous Estonian sculptor, is located in Kadriorg Park in Tallinn. The bust was installed in 1962 and its authors are the sculptor Albert Eskel and…
Gustav Ernesaks (1908-1993) was an Estonian composer and choir leader who wrote himself into the history pages with his songs. ‘Mu isamaa on minu arm’ became the unofficial anthem of Estonians during the Soviet era,…
The monument to F. R. Kreutzwald in Kadriorg Park in Tallinn is the biggest of all the monuments erected in honour of the famous author. Designed by sculptors E. Taniloo and M. Saks, it was…
This church, commissioned by the lord of the local manor, Karl von Mellin, was constructed between 1775 and 1777. The saint’s name chosen for it was selected in his honour. It was consecrated on 3…
The main building of Paldiski railway station, in crown historicist style, was constructed in 1870 to standard 3rd class Baltic railway designs. Although certain of the original decorative elements adorning its overhangs and roof were…
Naissaare church, standing on an island 12 km from Tallinn, was constructed in 1934 to the designs of architect Karl Tarvas. It was consecrated in 1938. It has a very simple but masterful architectural design…
The earliest mentions of a water mill at Keila-Joa date back to 1555. In 1928, Keila-Joa hydroelectric power plant began producing electricity; at the same time, there was also a fish farm here, and an old grain…
Tallinn’s Forest Cemetery was established in Kloostrimetsa as a public cemetery in 1933. Its planning was based on natural forms, with grand structures avoided save for the final resting place of the family of President…
