Tallinn

Estonia - June 2017
P001 - IMG_1386 Estonia - connecting the dots between Scandinavia, Central Europe and what lies to the east...
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P003 - IMG_1206 June 10 Saturday, tour day 7 - we travelled from Latvia tracing the coastline of the Gulf of Riga past the Estonian health resort of Pärnu (a site inhabited...
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P005 - IMG_1229 Estonia, the smallest and most northern of the three Baltic countries; its territory covering an area of 17,000 square miles with a population around 1.3...
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P007 - P1130971 Tallinn, the capital city, situated on the northern coast on Tallinn Bay of the Gulf of Finland some 200 miles north of Riga...
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P008 - IMG_1354 ... founded in 1248, Tallinn, the largest city with a population of around 450K occupying an area of approx 62 sq. miles...
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P009 - IMG_1368 ... the UNESCO world heritage capital city was granted city rights in the 13th century by the King of Denmark; since then, the streets of Tallinn have seen many...
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P010 - P1130966 ... legend has it that a fortified settlement existed at the northern coastline from the late 1st millennium BC until the 10th-11th century AD, and there was a...
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P011 - P1130942 ... in 1219 after a successful raid led by Valdemar II of Denmark, Tallinn was captured by the Danes who then built a new fortress on Toompea hill - trade...
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P012 - P1130938 ... seized by Peter I (the Great) in 1710, Tallinn remained a Soviet city until it became the capital of independent Estonia from 1918 to 1940, and annexed to...
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P013 - P1130949 ... in 1940 and again in 1944-49, many Estonian citizens of Tallinn were deported and imprisoned by Soviet forces for alleged conspiracy, collaboration with the...
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P014 - P1130946 ... many relics of Tallinn's long history survive or have been restored, especially on Toompea hill and in the old, walled Lower Town - the city's historic...
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P015 - P1130964 ... today Tallinn is a major commercial and fishing port and industrial center - shipbuilding and machine building head a range of engineering industries, and...
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P017 - IMG_1169 The Riigikogu Building (Parliament of Estonia) erected in 1920-1922, situated in the courtyard of the Toompea Castle complex, standing on the foundations of the...
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P018 - P1130948 ... Toompea Castle, erected on the foundations of the crumbling eastern wing of the fortress built on the site in the 13th-14th centuries; the castle with its...
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P019 - IMG_1186 ... the Lords of Toompea Castle - 11th-13th century, Lindanise castle of ancient Estonians; 1219-1227 Kingdom of Denmark; 1227-1238 Order of the Brethren of the...
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P020 - IMG_1180 ... Landskrone, tower built in the 14th or 15th century at the northeast corner of Toompea Castle; it's said that Landskrone meaning
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