You take a very personal and individual excursion. Before you book this tour, have an online conversation. According to your interests and wishes, you can arrange this excursion of about 5 hours together. Arrange a free online call The contact details can be found at offered by incommer under the menu item More information. You are the only participant alone or in pairs. for this tour price you can bring one person. You decide how much time you want to stay at historical monuments and places. You will quietly seek out the photo perspectives and do not have to adapt to the rhythm of other participants or a guide. The tour is conducted in German.
Meeting point is your accommodation or a meeting point by appointment.
We are glad that you are interested in this individual and personal tour. Here you can get an overview of the most important sights on the Domberg and in the old town. Of course, not all art monuments can be visited on the 5 hour tour, for this would already require one or two day tours. from the following suggestions, you will put together your walk according to your interests and wishes in the online conversation. The start is, for example, in Snelli Park Schnecken Park, the former fortifications of bastions with high walls, huge earthen walls and wide water ditches, at the beginning you get a short geographical overview of the cathedral and old town with the planned stations based on a historical map. Along the only remains of the former moat, we then go to the Domberg, the origin of Tallinn.
On a historic path you will pass the site of the former cathedral gate and commandantry to the castle square with the former order castle today Estonian parliament and the castle tower Langer Hermann. Unfortunately, the tower is not accessible.
On Domberg, the former upper city, you will discover many historic buildings the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral the former cathedral school Cathedral Church of St. Mary the Stenbock House former palace of a wealthy merchant the Knight's House Viewpoints Piiskopi Bishop, Patkuli and Kohtuotsa courthouse with great views of the old town the former lower city the medieval Old Town Gate Short Cathedral Hill to the Cathedral. Everywhere you go, you calmly find the perspectives for your photos and decide to take a short tour.
On old cobblestone streets, walk over the Long Cathedral Hill through the cathedral gate of the same name into the old town with the goal of St. Olai Church. On this route Cistern Gate, a gate of 7 historic gates of the old town with photo perspectives on Domberg and Stenbock House A small part of the city wall and 2 towers you can visit from the wall you have a beautiful perspective on the former complex of the Cistercian monastery on this historic square is now an Orthodox church and the Gustav Adolf Gymnasium. Continue past the massively built flour store today a museum of design through the old Breit street today Lai tänav to renovated storage houses and the Ross mill today a small art stage from the tower of the St. Olai Church you get magnificent views of the Cathedral Hill, the old town far into Tallinn's suburban quarters.
After the St. Olai Church you leave the old town a few meters and enter the upstream Schonen Bastion, Reval's largest bastion, which is located to the Baltic Sea and the port. And right back you enter the old town through the Large beach gate with the imposing bastion tower Dicke Margarethe today maritime museum. By the way, all the towers that still exist have been given their medieval names to this day.
With your historical map you can walk from the Great Beach Gate on Pikk tänav early Lang Street of the medieval main street Revals to the numerous historic houses and squares of the old town the cabbage market used to be a market for vegetables and fish the Palace of Roses today Swedish Embassy the Guild Houses of Blackheads, Olai, Kanuti and Great Guild the former legendary Café Georg Stude, former pastry chef and marzipan maker the Holy Spirit Church.
After a small passage from the Holy Spirit Church, the Rathaus Platz (town hall square) opens up earlier. In this central square you have the most beautiful views of the facades of the merchant houses and of course of the town hall with its slim octagonal tower. This tower can be climbed up very steep stairs and has great views of the old town houses. As on this entire tour, you make your decisions to take a break in the cafe or a coffee or snack to go.
The paths in the old town are short From the town hall go to the Old Market, the early site of the town hall, through the vein tänav early Russ Street to the St. Catherine's Church on the former complex of the Dominican monastery opens up a small labyrinth of numerous buildings from different centuries, in which walls and rooms from the time of the destruction of the monastery 1532 can still be discovered Peter and Paul Church has stood on the former great dining room of the monks since 1842 on the foundations of the former monastery granary there is now a theatre in the medieval remains of Ruin Monastery you will discover the oldest tombstones of wealthy citizens Revals in a narrow alley of the former monastery grounds you will meet workshops of artisans.
From St. Catherine’s Church, you will walk to St. Nicholas’ Church along the eastern city walls to the former sites of three medieval Old Town gates. two towers of the clay gate today a flower market are still preserved past the Karri gate herd gate over the large Freedom Square with St. John's Church to Forge gate and over Mayer's stairs to Kiek in de Kök, tower of the Bastion Ingermannland over the Rüütli tänav early Ritter Strasse with exemplary restored merchant houses past the St. Michaelis Church formerly Swedish Church until the Nikolai Church today Museum of Church Art
From these many sights of the UNESCO World Heritage city of Tallinn, you can make a selection according to your interests together with advice for your personally guided tour. Arrange a free online call The contact details can be found under offered by incommer under the menu item More information. After your excursion you have gained many inspirations for targeted visits to museums and your own explorations to get to know Tallinn even better.
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