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  2. Tallinn Old Town - Wikipedia

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    Old Town represents an exceptionally intact 13th century city plan. [1] Since 1997, the area has been registered in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The old town is bordered by the Walls of Tallinn. Its area is 113 ha and there is a buffer zone of 2,253 ha. [2] The majority of the Old Town's structures were built during the 13th–16th centuries ...

  3. History of Tallinn - Wikipedia

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    Republic of Estonia 1991–onwards. The first archaeological traces of a small hunter-fisherman community's presence [1] in what is now Tallinn's city centre are about 5,000 years old. The comb ceramic pottery found on the site dates to about 3000 BCE and corded ware pottery around 2500 BCE. [2]

  4. Tallinn - Wikipedia

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    Tallinn (/ ˈtælɪn /, Estonian: [ˈtɑlʲːinː] ⓘ) [5][6] is the capital and most populous [7] city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of about 461,000 (as of 2024) [2] and administratively lies in the Harju maakond (county).

  5. St. Olaf's Church, Tallinn - Wikipedia

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    124 metres (407 ft) St. Olaf’s Church or St. Olav's Church (Estonian: Oleviste kirik) in Tallinn, Estonia, is believed to have been built in the 12th century and to have been the centre for old Tallinn's Scandinavian community before Denmark conquered Tallinn in 1219. Its dedication relates to King Olaf II of Norway (also known as Saint Olaf ...

  6. List of World Heritage Sites in Estonia - Wikipedia

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    Estonia accepted the convention on 27 October 1995, making its historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. The first site added to the list was the Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn, in 1997. The second site, the Struve Geodetic Arc, was added in 2005. This is a transnational site and is shared with nine other countries. [2]

  7. Walls of Tallinn - Wikipedia

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    This wall was less than 5 metres (16 ft) tall and about 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) thick at its base. [ 1] Since that time it has been enlarged and strengthened. The walls and the many gates are still largely extant today. This is one of the reasons that Tallinn's old town became a World Heritage Site. The walls were enlarged in the fourteenth century ...

  8. St. Catherine's Monastery, Tallinn - Wikipedia

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    St. Catherine's Dominican Monastery, often simply St. Catherine's Monastery or the Dominican Monastery ( Estonian: Dominiiklaste klooster ), is a former monastery and one of the oldest buildings in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is located in the heart of Tallinn's Old Town district full of warehouses and merchants' houses.

  9. Kadriorg Palace - Wikipedia

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    Kadriorg Palace (Estonian: Kadrioru loss, German: Schloss Katharinental) is an 18th-century Petrine Baroque palace in Kadriorg, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Both the Estonian and the German name for the palace means "Catherine's valley". It was built in 1718–1725 to Nicola Michetti 's designs by Gaetano Chiaveri and Mikhail Zemtsov.

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