TallinnSights

Architectural, Cultural sights in Tallinn

  1. A

    Pikk tänav

    Pikk tänav , running north from Raekoja plats (Town Hall Square) to the Great Coast Gate and the Paks Margareeta (Fat Margaret Bastion) - the medieval exit to Tallinn port - is lined with many 15th-century houses of medieval merchants and gentry. Also here are the buildings of several old Tallinn guilds and some museums.

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  2. B

    Peter the Great Home Museum

    In Kadriorg Park, behind the Kadriorg Palace is the cottage Peter the Great occupied on visits to Tallinn while the palace was being built. Today it houses the Peter the Great Home Museum where you may examine his clothes and the boots he made. There's also a small collection of 18th-century furnishings.

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  3. C

    Raeapteek

    The Raeapteek , or Town Council Pharmacy, on the north side of Raekoja plats (Town Hall Square), is another ancient Tallinn institution; there's been a pharmacy or apothecary's shop here since at least 1422.

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  4. D

    Pikk tänav

    Pikk tänav , running north from Raekoja plats (Town Hall Square) to the Great Coast Gate and the Paks Margareeta (Fat Margaret Bastion) - the medieval exit to Tallinn port - is lined with many 15th-century houses of medieval merchants and gentry. Also here are the buildings of several old Tallinn guilds and some museums.

    reviewed