The Horse Mill, situated in the end of Lai Street, has been used as a theatre venue since 2003. It was built in the 14th Century and has an unusual circular shape. During the first centuries the building was used for grinding grain, and later for storage.
If you spend all your visit in the old town, you havent been to tallinn yet. the old town is indeed the heart of tallinn, but the brain and the limbs are worth to visit as well. Do walk out the old town and go east to the coast to watch the sun set (see my other tips in off beaten path), you will pass along some up-scale and not so up-scale residential area. you will explore something other than the famous old town and I believe that could be something you could still remember after days and years. watching sunset at the coast and watching (a lot of) ppl jogging and roller skating along side the high way. Thats why the Estonians are very fit.
If you are arriving via Tallinn airport, pick up a copy of the free Tallinn Airport magazine in English language.Features plenty of up-to-date information on events in the city etc plus loads of interesting articles.
For the most up-to-date listings in English/Finnish, make sure you pick up the 'Tallinn This Week' magazine from your hotel or the tourist information centre (in Vabaduse väljak or 'Freedom Square').Alos available on-line, but with less information: http://www.ttw.ee/"Tallinn This Week (TTW) is Tallinn’s city guide directed to English- and Finnish-speaking visitors, appearing 6 times a year with a circulation of 50 – 65,000 copies"
The Tallin City Tourist Board offers it's credit card-style Tallin Card to visitors. The card can run from 6 hours to 72 hours with prices as follows:6h - 130 EEK24h - 350 EEK48h - 400 EEK72h - 450 EEK(Under 14s are half-price in all cases)This is very good value. With the Tallin Card you get free public transport (buses, trolley buses and trams), a free 2.5 hour official sight-seeing tour of the city, unlimited use of the hop-on/hop-off City Tour buses and free admission to dozens of museums and all the top attractions. There are also resturant and shop discounts and free gifts for card holders. The 6 hour card has some restrictions.The card comes with a big explanatory booklet with map and entitles you to a free copy of 'Tallinn In Your Pocket' (the best guide booklet for my money) and the City Newspaper.You can buy the card at the airport, most hotels or both tourist offices plus many...
I don't know if it was unusually cold this January, but I wasn't expecting temperatures of -20C even in Tallinn. This kind of cold is bearable if you wrap up warm, and use a scarf like me in this picture.
Nearly two thirds of Tallinn’s Medieval Residential Houses have been preserved with more or less rebuilding. The best preserved examples are the Matkamaja (Raekoja plats 18) the Tallinn City Theatre (Linnateatri) building (Lai 23) and the building at Vana turg 6, Kuninga 1, Pikk 71 Lai 29, Lai 40. Vene 17 and 23, Ruutli 12 and Suur-Karja 8. I was pleasantly surprised about so many historical objects in a small Tallinn.
If you are looking for a pub or a hotel or whatever in the old town you will not find it without a street map and address as nothing has a sign outside. You could walk up and down a street all day and be totally unaware your passing bars or hotels etc.Theres a tourist info centre in the town full of free maps etc by the way.
The people are very sombre to say the least, you never see them smile or laugh. They can be a bit rude too, never say thank you, will push you instead of asking you to move out the way etc. The women were a lot worse then the men i found for this.
Memory of memories, moment of moments... Pictured here, the Estonian day laborers themselves, hard at work!! Just look at the way these gents sweat it out, repairing the very ground itself! These love-laden stones didn't get where they are by pure chance... Centuries ago, someone did the hard muscle work of laying them in and now today you can still see actual workers hammering at actual cobblestones! Amazing! "The necessity of production is so easily proved that any hack philosopher of industrialism can fill ten books with it. Unfortunately for these neo-economist thinkers, these proofs belong to the nineteenth century, a time when the misery of the working classes made the right to work the counterpart of the right to be a slave, claimed at the dawn of time by prisoners about to be massacred. Above all it was a question of surviving, of not disappearing physically. The imperatives of...
Reviews and photos of Tallinn County attractions posted by real travelers and locals. The best tips for Tallinn County sightseeing.
Q: Hi Everyone, I'm planning to go from Tallinn to Helsinki this July by ferry. How do I go about doing that? What is the ferry...
A: Seacat offers good rates, although there are several other providers like Tallink, Viking, etc. If you go to the port, all schedules are posted. There are many...
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