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Private Shore Excursion: All-Highlights of Tallinn (Walking and Driving)

Tallinn
Book online or call: +44 0800 015 4961
Duration: 3.5 h
Activity Level: Moderate
Experience: Unesco, Backpacker, Historical
Language: English, Français, Deutsche, Italiano, Português, Español, Chinese
Photo permit included
Tour by public transport
Canal Boat tour included
Train tickets included
Suitable for little children
Wheelchair accessible tour
Museum ticket included
Light snack included
Lunch included
Transportation included
Walking Tour

Overview

Sightseeing tour of Tallinn, which includes a panoramic tour by car/minivan (1.5 hours) and a walking tour of the Old Town (2 hours).

What's included

  • Professional licensed English speaking guide. Other languages available upon request (additional charges may apply)
  • Pick-up
  • Drop-off
  • All fees and taxes
  • Personal expenses
  • Gratuities to guide/driver (optional)
  • Not wheelchair accessible tour

Highlights

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Toompea's dominating landmark is the Russian Orthodox cathedral named for the duke who attacked southeastern Estonia and Pskov in the early 13th century. Tsar Alexander III ordered the cathedral designed in 1894 by St. Petersburg master Mikhail Preobrazhensky and it was completed in 1900. According to legend, the cathedral was built on the grave of Estonian hero Kalev and has suffered structurally as a result.
City walls of the Old Town (Tallin)
The oldest sections of Tallinn's city wall were built in the 13th century. During the next three centuries, it became one of the largest and strongest defence systems in the entire Northern Europe. More than a half of the magnificent defence system has been preserved as a city wall - this includes 1.85 km of the wall, 26 defence towers, 2 gates and fragments of two front gates. Patkuli viewing platform is a good place for examining the city wall, and a number of towers are open for visitors.
Dome Church
Lo que podría ser la iglesia más antigua de Estonia fue fundada en 1219 por la primera ola de fuerzas danesas. El exterior gótico data del siglo XIV, pero el interior fue reconstruido después del incendio de 1684. El púlpito barroco (1686) y el desván de órganos (1780) merecen una visita. Al entrar asegúrese de pisar la tumba de Otto Johann Thuve, quien pidió que su tumba se coloque en este lugar humilde.
Estonian National Opera
Designed by A. Lindgren and W. Lönn and completed in 1913, the art nouveau/classicist Estonia theatre and opera house was the largest building of its kind in Tallinn at the time. One of its two wings was designed as a theatre, and the other as a concert hall. The original building was destroyed during the Soviet bombings in March 1944. However, it was renovated in the latter half of the 1940's.
Europe's oldest pharmacy
One of the oldest continuously running pharmacies in Europe is on Town Hall Square. No one knows exactly when it opened, but records show that the Raeapteek was already on its third owner in 1422. In medieval times patients could buy mummy juice and burnt bees for treatment, and healthy folks could even drop in for a glass of spiced wine. Keeping up with the times, the pharmacy sells the usual aspirin and condoms, but part of the shop is also a museum, displaying old medical instruments and other curiosities.
Fat Margaret Tower
Originally constructed in the 14th century and arguably one of the top sights in the city, Paks Margareta as she is known to locals, is 82m in diameter and boasts 5m thick walls. At one point, Tallinn's harbour was just outside the Great Coastal Gate and she certainly provided a formidable defence against any hostile forces trying enter the city here. The tower currently houses the Estonian Maritime Museum.
Great Coastal Gate
The Great Coastal Gate were designed to protect the city from seafaring invaders, as well as impress visitors that would have arrived in the city by the sea. The message they portrayed was clear: don’t even think about attacking the city from the sea. The Great Coastal Gate is one of six remaining gates that are still intact from the old city wall system. They controlled access to the city during medieval times. This particular gate was added during the 14th Century.
Kadriorg Palace and Park
If there’s one part of Tallinn outside Old Town that a first time visitor absolutely, definitely, unquestionably has to see, it’s Kadriorg. Though it’s only a few minutes’ walk from the centre, this quiet area is a world unto itself, a secluded neighbourhood made up of large areas of forested park criss-crossed by paths and dotted with statues and ponds. It’s also home to a number of intriguing 19th- and 20th-century villas, and the nation’s top art museums.
Kumu Art Museum
Winning the title 'European Museum of the Year 2008' , Estonia's largest art museum makes its home in this enormous, cutting-edge facility built into a limestone cliff in Kadriorg. It serves as both a national gallery, displaying treasured works from Estonia's past, and as a contemporary art gallery, showing the latest trends. While here, be sure to explore the fascinating complex, built by Finnish architect Pekka Vapaavuori.
Old Town (Tallin)
Twisting cobblestone lanes and iron street lamps. Gothic spires and medieval markets. Cappuccino and Wi-Fi. This is the city's famous Old Town. If you're looking for that mix of historic ambience and cutting-edge culture that defines Tallinn, you'll find it here. Built up from the 13th to 16th centuries, when Tallinn – or Reval as it was known then – was a thriving member of the Hanseatic trade league, this enclosed neighbourhood of colourful, gabled houses, half-hidden courtyards and grandiose churches is, quite rightly, the city's biggest tourist draw. And the fact that it's all neatly packaged within a mostly-intact city wall and dotted with guard towers gives it an extra dose of fairytale charm. It’s small, compact, and very easily explored on foot.
Olympic Regatta Center
The Regatta of Moscow 1980th Olympics was organized in Tallinn. A special Regatta complex was built on Pirita Beach to accommodate participants. The colors of the complex reflect the natural landscape of the area, mixing it with the environment.
Parlament Building and Tall Hermann Tower
The Estonian Parliament building is located next to the walls of Toompea Castle. This is an active government building, open for tourists to observe the work of Parliament from a special balcony. The Tall Hermann Tower (Pikk Herman) is part of the Parliament building. This is the highest tower of the Tallinn city walls.
Presidential Palace
For a few years during Estonia's first period of independence (1918 - 1940), the Estonian head of state worked out of the Kadriorg Palace, but in 1938, this purpose-built presidential palace was opened next to it, just up the hill. The Presidential Palace's style echoes the Kadriorg, albeit without quite so much flourish. Since the building once again serves as the President's office and residence, it's closed to visitors.
Russalka Memorial
This striking sculpture of an angel facing out into the sea horizon is a memorial to the 177 men of the Russalka, a Russian military ship that tragically sunk while en route to Helsinki in 1893. Created by famed Estonian sculptor A.H. Adamson, the monument has become a Tallinn landmark and a traditional spot for Russian couples to lay flowers on their wedding day.
Song Festival Grounds
Completed in 1960, Tallinn's Song Festival Grounds were the first modern post-war construction to be built in the city. Unique in Europe, they were designed by Alar Kotli, Henno Sepmann and Uno Tölpus. Their design took into account the nature of the land they were to be built on: audiences would be seated on the slope of the hill, so the song arch would need to echo sound to them. A copy of the song stage was later erected in Vilnius.
Tallinn Old Lower Town
Lower Town, the larger part of medieval Tallinn (or Reval as it was called back then), became a member of the Hanseatic League at the end of the 13th century. Goods from around the world came in through the port and were traded on the market on Town Hall Square. Reval operated autonomously from the rest of the Estonian territories right up until Tsarist Russian times. As in the rest of the country, the real movers and shakers in Reval society were the Baltic Germans, with Ethnic Estonians for most part second-class citizens. However, Estonian peasants from surrounding areas often escaped to the city, where they could eventually be considered free.
The Three Sisters
The three merchant houses that comprise The Three Sisters Hotel stand near the end of Pikk Street, Tallinn's main artery in the Middle Ages. First paved in the 15th century, lively Pikk Street was where spices, meats and grains were bartered and sold amidst the clatter of horses' hooves and the banter of citizens.

Itinerary

Meeting time: Specified by your manager after booking

09:00 - 09:10

A guide with a driver will meet you outside the main port gate.

09:10 - 12:30

You will see the Olympic Village in Pirita, the Song Festival Grounds, the KUMU Estonian Art Museum, the Kadriorg Park, the Fat Margaret Tower, the Toompea Hill, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament, the Cathedral of Saint Mary the Virgin, etc.

12:30

The tour ends in the Old Town.

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