Quarter · Tallinn, Estonia

Toompea and the old town

One of the most complete medieval town cores in northern Europe, still walled, with the upper town of the nobility and the lower town of the merchants kept deliberately separate.

Toompea and the old town is in Tallinn, and this is Tallinn — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 730 km across and 260 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 3 hours · Open year-round · 59.436°N, 24.739°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Tallinn is walkable and its public transport is free to residents. All of Estonia →

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The record

What this atlas holds about Toompea and the old town, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Quarter
Give it: 3 hours
Season: Open year-round
Where: 59.436°N, 24.739°E
In: Tallinn