Kiek-in-de-Kök

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    Komandandi 2, Toompea
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    644 6686

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One of Tallinn's most formidable cannon towers is the tall, stout Kiek-in-de-Kök. Its name is Low German for 'Peep into the Kitchen'; from the upper floors lonely soldiers could peer into the houses of the Lower Town.

Built in about 1475, Kiek-in-de-Kök was badly damaged during the Livonian war, but it never collapsed (nine of Ivan the Terrible's cannon balls remain imbedded in the walls). Today it houses a museum tracing the birth and development of Tallinn with several floors of maps, weapons and models of the old city.