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Things to do in Tallinn
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Sightlore has 45 places to explore in Tallinn, and 38 of them come with a 60-second story in 5 languages. Point your camera at a landmark to learn its name and story, and earn points and badges at the places you actually visit.
Tallinn's must-sees
The city's most important places. In the app you see how many you've visited and earn a badge when you've seen them all.
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Toompea Castle
Toompea castle is a medieval castle on Toompea hill in the central part of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. In modern times, it houses the Parliament of Estonia (Riigikogu).
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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of Tallinn is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in central Tallinn, Estonia. It was built in 1894–1900, when the country was part of the former Russian Empire. The cathedral is the city's largest cupola church.
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Pirita Convent
Pirita Convent was a Bridgettine convent for both nuns and monks, located in the district of Pirita in Tallinn, Estonia.
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Bremen Tower
The Bremen Tower is a four-story horseshoe-shaped tower on the Walls of Tallinn in Estonia.
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War of Independence Victory Column
The Cross of Liberty and the Monument to the War of Independence is located in Freedom Square, Tallinn, Estonia.
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Three Handed Mother of God Church
The Three Handed Mother of God Church is a parish of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church located in Tallinn, Estonia.
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Estonian Firefighting Museum
The Estonian Firefighting Museum is a museum in Tallinn presenting the historical heritage of firefighting in Estonia.
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Suur Tõll
Suur Tõll is an Estonian steam-powered icebreaker preserved in the Estonian Maritime Museum in Tallinn. She was originally built for the Russian Empire in 1914 by AG Vulcan in Stettin, Germany, as Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich.
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Seaplane Harbour
The Seaplane Harbour is a maritime museum in Tallinn, Estonia, which opened in spring 2012. The museum is part of the Estonian Maritime Museum.
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St. Peter's and St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Peter and St. Paul's Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tallinn.
Discovery routes in Tallinn
Visit the stops in any order and tap "Check in" at each one; finish the route to earn points and its own badge.
Tallinn: the Lower Town from Viru Gate to the Town Hall
From Viru Gate to St Catherine's Monastery, the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, St Nicholas' Orthodox Church and the Bremen Tower; past the Broken Line memorial, Fat Margaret and St Olaf's Church to the Three Handed Mother of God Church, the Estonian Museum of Natural History and the Church of the Holy Spirit; ending at the Town Hall and St Nicholas' Church (Niguliste).
Tallinn: Freedom Square and Toompea
From the War of Independence Victory Column and St John's Church to Charles' Church and Hirvepark; then Tall Hermann, Toompea Castle, Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tallinn Cathedral and the Kohtuotsa viewing platform, down to the Danish King's Garden, Kiek in de Kök and the Swedish St Michael's Church.
Tallinn: Kadriorg Palace and Park
From the Estonian Firefighting Museum and the Church of St John's almshouse to Kadriorg Park, Kadriorg Palace and the Kumu art museum.
Tallinn Seafront: from the Seaplane Harbour to the TV Tower
From the Seaplane Harbour and the icebreaker Suur Tõll to Patarei Prison and Linnahall; then the Russalka Memorial, the Song Festival Grounds and Pirita Convent, on to Metsakalmistu and the Tallinn TV Tower.
Places to visit
Historic sites
Viru Gate
The gatehouse of the Viru Gate was a defensive structure built in the 14th century as part of the Tallinn city wall, associated with the Viru Gate.
Bremen Tower
The Bremen Tower is a four-story horseshoe-shaped tower on the Walls of Tallinn in Estonia.
Fat Margaret
Fat Margaret is a tower in Tallinn, Estonia. Nowadays, the tower is home to Estonian Maritime Museum. The tower was built in the early 16th century (from 1511 to 1530) during the reconstruction of the medieval city gate system.
Tallinn Town Hall
The Tallinn Town Hall is a building in the Old Town (Vanalinn) of Tallinn (Reval), Estonia, next to the Town Hall Square. The building is located in the south side of the medieval market square and is 36.8 metres (121 ft) long.
Pikk Hermann
Pikk Hermann is a tower of the Toompea Castle, on Toompea (Domberg) hill in Tallinn (Reval), the capital of Estonia. The first part of the tower was built in 1360–1370.
Toompea Castle
Toompea castle is a medieval castle on Toompea hill in the central part of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. In modern times, it houses the Parliament of Estonia (Riigikogu).
Kiek in de Kök
Kiek in de Kök is an artillery tower in Tallinn, Estonia, built in 1475. It gained the name Kiek in de Kök from the ability of tower occupants to see into kitchens of nearby houses.
Kadriorg Palace
Kadriorg Palace is an 18th-century Petrine Baroque palace in Kadriorg, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Both the Estonian and the German names for the palace mean "Catherine's valley".
Patarei prison
Patarei Prison, also known as Patarei Sea Fortress and Tallinn Central Prison (Tallinna Keskvangla), commonly known as The Battery (Patarei), is a building complex in Kalamaja district of Tallinn, Estonia.
Linnahall
Linnahall is a semi-abandoned multipurpose venue in Tallinn, Estonia. It is located in the harbor, just beyond the walls of the Old Town, and was completed in 1980. The venue also features a heliport and a small seaport.
Metsakalmistu
Metsakalmistu is a cemetery in the Pirita district of Tallinn.
Kopli cemetery
The Kopli cemetery was Estonia's largest Lutheran Baltic German cemetery, located in the suburb of Kopli in Tallinn.
Kuldjala Tower
Defensive tower of the Tallinn city wall at Gümnaasiumi Street; it was probably built in 1311–1320 as the corner tower of the western wall.
Rahumäe Cemetery
Rahumäe Cemetery is a cemetery located at Rahumäe in Nõmme District, Tallinn, Estonia. This municipal cemetery was established in 1903 on 29 hectares of land to meet the needs of the growing population of Tallinn.
Walls of Tallinn
The Walls of Tallinn are the medieval defensive walls constructed around the city of Tallinn in Estonia.
Tallinn Old Town
Tallinn Old Town is the oldest part of Tallinn, Estonia. Old Town of Tallinn has managed to wholly preserve its structure of medieval and Hanseatic origin. Old Town represents an exceptionally intact 13th century city plan.
Museums
Estonian Museum of Natural History
The Estonian Museum of Natural History is the Estonian national museum for natural history. It is situated in Tallinn's Old Town.
Estonian Firefighting Museum
The Estonian Firefighting Museum is a museum in Tallinn presenting the historical heritage of firefighting in Estonia.
Kumu
The Kumu Art Museum is an art museum in Tallinn, Estonia. It is one of the largest museums in Estonia and one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe.
Seaplane Harbour
The Seaplane Harbour is a maritime museum in Tallinn, Estonia, which opened in spring 2012. The museum is part of the Estonian Maritime Museum.
Suur Tõll
Suur Tõll is an Estonian steam-powered icebreaker preserved in the Estonian Maritime Museum in Tallinn. She was originally built for the Russian Empire in 1914 by AG Vulcan in Stettin, Germany, as Tsar Mikhail Feodorovich.
Places of worship
Saint Catherine's Monastery
St. Catherine's Dominican Monastery, often simply St. Catherine's Monastery or the Dominican Monastery, is a former monastery and one of the oldest buildings in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
St. Peter's and St. Paul's Cathedral
St. Peter and St. Paul's Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tallinn.
St. Nicholas' Church
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Tallinn is an Orthodox church in Tallinn, Estonia. The church is named after Saint Nicholas.
St. Olaf's Church
St. Olaf's, or St. Olav's Church, is a Baptist church in Tallinn, Estonia; originally a Roman Catholic Church, after the Reformation it was a Lutheran church.
Three Handed Mother of God Church
The Three Handed Mother of God Church is a parish of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church located in Tallinn, Estonia.
Church of the Holy Spirit
The Church of the Holy Ghost or Church of the Holy Spirit is a medieval Lutheran church in the old town district of Tallinn, Estonia.
St. Nicholas' Church
St. Nicholas Church is a medieval church building in Tallinn (Reval), Estonia. It was dedicated to Saint Nicholas, the patron of the fishermen and sailors.
St. John's Church in Tallinn
St. John's Church is a large Lutheran parish church in Tallinn, Estonia. It is dedicated to Saint John the Evangelist, a disciple of Jesus Christ and author of the fourth Christian Gospel.
Charles' Church
Charles's Church is a Lutheran church in Tallinn, Estonia, built 1862–1870 to plans by Otto Pius Hippius. It is Tallinn's grandest 19th-century church. Tõnismägi hill has been the location of a chapel probably since the 14th century.
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of Tallinn is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in central Tallinn, Estonia. It was built in 1894–1900, when the country was part of the former Russian Empire. The cathedral is the city's largest cupola church.
St. Mary's Cathedral
St. Mary's Cathedral is a Lutheran cathedral church located on the Toompea hill in the medieval central part of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia.
Swedish Saint Michael's Church
St. Michael's Church or St. Michael's Swedish Church is a Lutheran church used by the Swedish congregation in the old town district of Tallinn, Estonia.
Church of St. John's almshouse
Church of St. John's almshouse is a wooden church in Tallinn, Estonia. Since 1999 the building is designated as "architectural monument".
Pirita Convent
Pirita Convent was a Bridgettine convent for both nuns and monks, located in the district of Pirita in Tallinn, Estonia.
Tallinn Mosque
The Estonian Islamic Centre is a mosque in Lasnamäe District, Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia.
Monuments
Broken Line
The Broken Line was erected to commemorate the lives lost in the sinking of the MS Estonia on 28 September 1994. It is located in the Kesklinn district of Tallinn in Estonia.
War of Independence Victory Column
The Cross of Liberty and the Monument to the War of Independence is located in Freedom Square, Tallinn, Estonia.
Russalka Memorial
Russalka Memorial is a bronze monument sculpted by Amandus Adamson, erected on 7 September 1902 in Kadriorg, Tallinn, Estonia (then part of the Russian Empire) to mark the ninth anniversary of the sinking of the Russian warship Rusalka, or "Mermaid", which sank en route to…
Nature
Hirvepark
Hirvepark is a park in Tallinn, Estonia. On 23 August 1987, the anti-Soviet Hirvepark meeting took place in the park. Hirvepark is one of the most biodiverse parks in Estonia in consideration of its variety of tree species.
Danish King's Garden
Danish King's Garden is a park in Tallinn Old Town, Estonia. The park is the place where the flag of Denmark, Dannebrog, according to tradition, is said to have been born.
Kadriorg Park
Kadriorg Park is a park in Kadriorg, Tallinn, Estonia. Its area is about 70 ha. The park history started in 1718, when Peter the Great ordered to re-designate his areas at Fonnenthal Summer Manor.
Other
Kohtuotsa viewing platform
Viewing platform on Kohtu Street on the northern side of Toompea hill in Tallinn Old Town, overlooking the Old Town and the city centre.
Tallinn Song Festival Grounds
The Tallinn Song Festival Grounds are the grounds on which the Estonian Song Festival "Laulupidu" is held every five years.
Tallinn TV Tower
Tallinn TV Tower is a free-standing structure with an observation deck, built to provide better telecommunication services for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics regatta event (see Sailing at the 1980 Summer Olympics).
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