Tallinn Photo Thread By Tin_Can

[Tin_Can]

99 More photos from Lai street. Niguliste / St. Nicholas church in the distance.


100 Oleviste / St. Olaf's church. More of it later...


101 Now moving to Aida street.


102 Medieval warehouse.


103 City Theatre's stage hole. Inner courtyard accessible from both Lai and Aida street.


104 Random buildings..


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107 Horse mill. Dates back to early 1300s,when it was used as defensive tower (city wall was not yet built then),by 1379 it had been converted to horse mill. Interestingly it was used only in case of a siege or harsh winter (when city's watermills would not work).

[Tin_Can]

Now moving outside city wall to show you views from Tornide / Towers Square (truly fitting name ).

108 Let's start from Laboratooriumi street.


109 Epping tower.


110 Plate tower.


111 Looking towards Oleviste church.


112 Suurtüki street cuts through city wall. Photo should give you rough idea how thick the wall itself is.


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114 Behind The Grusbeke,Epping,Plate and Rope Hill towers.


115 Loewenschede,Behind The Nuns and Goldfeet towers.


116 Loewenschede and Behind The Nuns towers.


117 Same.


118 Behind The Nuns and Goldfeet towers (ehh,those crazy names )


119 Loewenschede tower.


120 Goldfeet tower.


121 Sauna and Nuns towers. Yes,there are Nuns and Behind The Nuns towers

[Rebasepoiss]

I hate cars in the Old Town. Great pics, though.

A bit of OT: Since I just visited Riga(again), the need for a big city feeling grows in me and Tallinn just doesn't have it.

[Tin_Can]

Today was a perfect weather for photography,soo enjoy!

122 First revisiting Great Coastal Gate area...


123 Gun powder depot (1748) in the front,Stolting tower.


124 Fat Margaret cannon tower.


125 Few shots of St.Olaf's church (built 1438-1519, the world's highest building 1549-1625) After it's spire got struck by lightning on several times,it was rebuilt shorter (originally 159 meters,currently 123 meters)


126 Another view.


127 Few random photos...


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129 Goldfeet tower again...


130 Sauna and Nuns towers,Toompea hill in the distance.


131 Another view of those towers.


132 Now looking back..


133 Sauna and Goldfeet towers.


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135 Another medieval warehouse.


136 View from Patkuli viewpoint on Toompea hill (shows area visited in my recent posts)


More photos coming soon...

[Singidunum]

Wow this is great Thanks

[Tin_Can]

More photos from Patkuli viewpoint,Toompea hill.
137 A bit wider angle panorama (roughly about 180° view)


138 Ship on the horizon.


139 More ships at the sea.


140 View over Old Town.


141 Another photo of it.


142 Tallinn's TV tower is also visible. Note those high buildings on the horizon,left corner of the photo - they are Maardu port's silos (roughly 10-20 km from Old Town)


143 Right next to Patkuli is Stenbock's house (government house,they hold meetings there,quite familiar site from TV and news)


144 View towards Patkuli viewpoint from ground level.


Next time you'll see a bit more of Lower Old Town and Toompea hill (I went bit mad there,almost every third photo taken being a panorama ) So,be patient and you'll see those photos...

[ch1le]

Thanks!

And respect for memorizing the tower names!

[Tin_Can]

145 Issandamuutmise kirik / Church Of The Transfiguration Of Our Lord (orthodox church) Originally Church of Cistercian Order convent (thats where those defensive towers get their nun - themed names),it was converted to orthodox church in 1716. Church is built around 1300s ,it's most visible part - the spire is built in 1776.


146 View of it from side alley.


147 More photos from Lai and Pikk streets.


148 Look,this house has griffins on the roof .


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150 Narrow Börsi Käik / Stock Exchange Passage.


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152 While in Old Town,it's often good idea to peek into small courtyards,which often have really nice and cosy views.


153 Looking up..


154 Now showing photos from Kohtuotsa viewpoint. Looking down.. Lai street.


155 Niguliste / St. Nicholas church is quite nicely visible from here.


156 Tallinn's highrise cluster.


157 Another 180° panorama,this time from Kohtuotsa viewpoint.


Next we'll continue on Toompea hill...

[Vecais Sakarnis]

I have been in Talllin's old town several times and have seemingly walked it through and through but there are some spots which I never find and always wonder when next time I see photos of those places. For example, this place - where the hell is it? - http://i769.photobucket.com/albums/x.../skyline09.jpg.
Could you post panoramas also in larger sizes? Or at least provide a link to them?

[VelesHomais]

Tallinn has incredible quality of both old and new architecture. Well done!

[Tin_Can]

@VelesHomais,ch1le,Singidunum and all others - thank you all

@Vecais Sakarnis - it's actually really easy to find this place It's a view from Mere avenue near the harbour (a small hint - tramlines 1 and 2 run past this photo's location) And about those panoramas - no,not really. I'm using Photobucket,and free version resizes images To give you the idea (I'm using maximum possible options) - Photobucket's current max. width of image being 1024 pixels,while most of my panoramas are atleast 10000+ pixels wide. I know,it sucks but I can't do much about it.

Now let's continue...
158 Kohtu street.


159 Again,nice inner courtyard.


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161 Toomkirik / Dome Church / St. Mary's Church (1230-1240) One of the oldest churches in Estonia. Has a rather bloody part in it's history - in 1233 after an angry dispute knights from Livonian Brothers of the Sword order killed all church's monks. This shocked town's people who later addressed letter to pope asking forgiveness and consecration of the church.


162 Views of the church...


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165 Two views from Bishop's Garden (another viewpoint behind the Dome church)


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168 Pikk Jalg heading to Lower Old Town.


169 Finnish embassy on the cliff.


170 Near Toomkooli street.


171 Another panorama (bit crappy light conditions ) Showing Snelli pond (remaining part of moat that once circled entire city)


172 Standing right next to Toompea Castle, Pilsticker tower.


173 Toompea Castle,Landskrone tower.


On my next post you will see more photos of Toompea Castle....

[Mario13th]

Great photos, but sad that Tallinn isn't fixing up those ugly holes and rundown little corners

[Singidunum]

Originally Posted by Tin_Can

Photobucket's current max. width of image being 1024 pixels,while most of my panoramas are atleast 10000+ pixels wide. I know,it sucks but I can't do much about it.

You should try imageshack.us

[Vecais Sakarnis]

Originally Posted by Singidunum

You should try imageshack.us

Wanted to suggest the same. Imageshack allows up to 3 mb file size. Besides, I would suggest to run away from photobucket as fast as you can. Because when I tried their service some 2 years ago for a short while - I ended up with my pictures being not visible after some weeks. At least then they asked fee for bandwidth, and if it's still the same, if you won't pay, these Tallinn pics won't be visible after some month or so. I had to re-upload all my pics on imageshack afterwards.

[Tin_Can]

Thanks,I'll look into it. Meanwhile these should be few last posts with using photobucket.

174 In front of Toompea Castle. Some protesters (apparently protesting against nuclear power plant plans,as I later found out from the news) Toompea Castle is Estonian's parliament building so it should explain those protesters.


175 Castle's gate and Landskrone tower.


176 Right in front of Castle is Aleksander Nevski cathedral (orthodox church,built 1894-1900) In 1920s there was a serious discussion of demolishing the church (it was built as part of russification plans,to display tzar's and Russian Empire's dominant power in Tallinn)


177 Photos from Governor's Garden,looking at Nevski cathedral.


178 Toompea Castle. Castle part built 1227-1430,palace part (pink) built 1767–1773 and parliament building (in the castle's courtyard) is built 1920-1922.


179 Pikk Hermann / Tall Hermann tower. Height 45 meters.


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181 View from Governor's Garden.

[Tin_Can]

182 Ze German ambassador's residence ( why isn't he displaying their national colours? ...)


183 Another look at Finnish embassy .


184 Talli / Stable Tower.


185 Virgin's tower and Kiek In De Kök cannon tower.


186 Danish King's Garden. Stable tower and Short Leg's gate tower.


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188 Lühike Jalg / Short Leg gate tower (during medieval time one of two gates connecting Toompea hill to Lower Old Town.


189 It's gate doors.


190 Back at Danish King's Garden. Few photos of Niguliste / St. Nicholas church (built between 1230 and 1420) Suffered heavy damage during 1944 air raid (spire and church burned down,basically only walls were left standing)


191 Downtown is also visible from here.

[Mario13th]

I love the Danish King's Garden during summer time. With the medieval music and really cozy aura .

[Postituvi]

Actually, the 182 isn't the German embassy, it's the residence of the ambassador, the embassy is located at Toom-Kuninga 11. See the green arrow: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=59.428...,0.008454&z=17

[Tin_Can]

Thanks,Postituvi. I always thought this building to be a German embassy I guess the flag and the sign die Deutsche smth smth... helped to convince me of that. Oh well...time for another editing.

[Jarmo K]

Originally Posted by Tin_Can

178 Toompea Castle. Castle part built 1227-1430,palace part (pink) built 1767–1773 and parliament building (in the castle's courtyard) is built 1920-1922.

... and the part in this photo, as well as the park you're standing in, is from 1936 (:

the south wing of the "castle" was in fact designed by alar kotli who a couple of years later started to work on the kadriorg administrative building - note the visual similarity between the 2 buildings http://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadrior...istratiivhoone