 | Tallin is one of my most favorite places that I have visted yet and certainly my most favorite part of this trip! Like Helsinki, Tallin is very beautiful, colorful, and well-kept. However, unlike Helsinki, Tallinn is a very old city. The "Old Town" is the portion most interesting to tourists and all of my photos on this website were taken from this part of the city. The "Old Town" was built during the Middle Ages and has been preserved much in its original condition. This photo shows me in front of one of the gates that lead into the Old Town. |
This photo shows a section of the walls and two watch-towers which guarded the Old Town long ago. |  |
 | This photo shows a typical street in the Old Town of Tallinn. |
| Tallinn's heart is in it's Old Town Square, shown here in this picture. This square used to be home to markets, excecutions, speeches, and demonstrations. Today it is still home to these things, minus the executions, of course! As you can see, a market still previals here where one can buy many clothes that are of the medieval fashions, hand-wooven sweaters, hand-carved wood, blacksmith-made metal items, and much much more! Also, note that the locals dress in medieval-style clothing, complimenting Tallinn's medieval, magical atmosphere! |  |
I know this picture is quite large, but I made it that way in order to capture the magical scenery of the market in the Old Town Square! |
 | While in Tallinn, we ate dinner at a medieval-style restaurant called Olde Hansa. During our dinner, these musicians played music characteristic of the Middle Ages. |
| This is the view from Toopea, Tallinn's largest hill. The nobles used to make this hill their home. You can see much of the Old Town below as well as some of the newer sections of Tallinn. |  |
 | This is the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, built in the style of traditional Russian Orthodox churches. Built in 1900, the design was by the St Petersburg architect Mikhail Preobrzhensk. Today it is the main center of Russian Orthodoxy in Estonia. According to local legends, the structural damage the cathedral has suffered this century results from it's having been built on the grave of the local hero Kalevipoeg. Who exactly is Alexander Nevsky, you ask? He was a very important man in this part of Europe. Nevsky was the Russian hero who defeated the vastly superior forces of the Tuetonic nights in the 13th century. Find out more here: info 1938 movie |
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