History & Culture

Rocca al Mare Shopping Centre

Rocca al Mare Shopping Centre is one of the biggest of its kind in Estonia with more than 170 stores and service outlets.The Centre’s colour-coded and speciality-based layout of shops helps clients find goods and…

Viru Keskus Shopping Centre

Viru Keskus shopping centre has over 100 stores, including international fashion brands such as ARKET, Zara, Nike and many more. The department store Kaubamaja’s Naistemaailm (Women’s World), which is part of Viru Keskus, offers visitors…

Suurupi upper lighthouse

People have been lighting bonfires on the highest limestone shore in Suurupi for centuries. In 1760, a massive limestone lighthouse was built here to warn captains about rocks in the water and direct the ships…

Padise Monastery

After the recently completed restoration, Padise Monastery is open to visitors again! The monastery was built by the Cistercians in the 14th century over a period of 200 years. Today,  its 14th-century church bell (the oldest in…

Museum of Coastal Folk

The Museum of Coastal Folk is situated in the old coastal village of Pringi in Viimsi. Here, in a cosy old schoolhouse where the museum has found its home, the harmony of the convergence of…

St. Lawrence’s Stone in Kuusalu

In Kuusalu, just by Peterburi Road, lies a huge stone – St. Lawrence’s Stone, or the Path Stone. It is an ancient cult stone but most likely also marked the border between Kuusalu Church and…

Hundikangrud (ancient burial grounds)

The stone-cist barrows are located south-east of Muuksi Village, on the northern shore of Lake Kahala. The 85 stone-cist barrows forming the group of Hundikangrud are located on a high limestone region covered with thin…

Kolga Manor

Here, in the grand Kolga manor, you will experience an atmosphere of mystery and of times past. In 1230, the estate belonged to the Cistercian Order. In 1581, King John III of Sweden gave Kolga and…

Estonian War Museum – General Laidoner Museum

Housed in Viimsi Manor near Tallinn, the former summer residence of General Johan Laidoner who was the Commander in Chief of the Estonian Armed Forces in the Estonian War of Independence, the Estonian War Museum…

Harju County Museum

Since 1988, Harju County Museum has called the former main building of Keila Manor its home. Museum is surrounded by a historical manor park with ruins of a small castle and a pre-historic sacrificial stone….

Keila-Joa Manor and Schloss Fall Museum

This manor complex was built in 1833 in the neo-gothic style according to the designs of Hans von Stackenschneider, who would go on to become one of the key minds of the historicist style in…

Stockmann shopping centre

The first Stockmann store was opened in Estonia in 1993. In 1996, the Stockmann Shopping Centre (with a sales area of 12,200 square metres) was opened in the centre of Tallinn. It was extended to…