Tallinn in architectural styles
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For lovers to look around and join the high, our tour will enjoy the most. Who is not a guide architect, best able to describe and tell about all the advantages of the ancient city and the mixture of all styles. You can enjoy the view of many attractions built in different eras!
The cultural wealth of Tallinn is a source of pride for the whole of Estonia. Many tourists annually flock to Tallinn to enjoy its unique architecture, wander through the streets that have preserved the spirit of the old city, admire the palaces and mansions. Our guide will create a route for you that will allow you to fully appreciate the architectural merits of Tallinn.
Tallinn is a unique city, a real architectural reserve. Various rulers owned this city throughout its history, but lived in it and built it Ostsee Germans. The upper city - knights, and then the nobles, the lower city - Hanseatic merchants and artisans. The city was never destroyed, never taken by storm. Thanks to the powerful systems of fortifications, the city repulsed enemy attacks, because knights, merchants, artisans, servants themselves stood on the walls. And when they could not defend the city, they opened the gates to the enemy. Therefore, Tallinn is the only city in the Baltics where so much Gothic has been preserved.
Medieval streets are like saw cloves - narrow facades (the facade was a large tax), pointed pediments of houses with hatches of warehouses-barns on the upper floors. The entire layout of houses is strictly spelled out in the Lübeck Hanseatic Law, the code of laws of the Hanseatic cities. On them all life could pass only on the first floor, above - only warehouses. Examples of houses of wealthy merchants and artisans of the 15th century can serve as the restaurant "PeperSark" (pepper bag), on Vanaturg Square, Hopner House on Vanaturukael, Hook House on Lai Street, as well as the hotel "3 Sisters" on Pikk Street.
By the beginning of the 15th century, the construction of the Town Hall, the Great Merchant Guild, the churches of Domskaya, Niguliste and Oleviste are attributed. St. John's. The Spirit and the Dominican Monastery were built earlier. Peak Street is the quintessence of the city. Near the northern Gothic there is an early classicism (the building of the Russian Embassy) and early modernity (cafe "Majasmokk" - a treat), next to the Renaissance (the house of the Brotherhood of Blackheads) - adjacent to the Baroque (Swedish Embassy).
The tour will allow you to enjoy the unique sights of Tallinn, get acquainted with its unique architecture. The Old Town is a genuine historical reserve, the streets of which have preserved the authentic spirit of Tallinn. Do not miss the opportunity to visit it together with our guide, who will conduct for you an interesting and informative tour "Tallinn in architectural styles".