Tallinn’s medieval Old Town (described in my previous post, and the one before that) is lovely, but the teeming hordes of tourists started to get on my nerves pretty quickly. I suppose if I’d been able to afford to stay inside Diocletian’s Palace in Split, or in Prague’s Old Town or Castle Quarter — the
Tallinn’s spectacular Old Town is worthy of two blog posts. In my last one, I covered Toompea, the walled “upper town” that, historically, housed Tallinn’s aristocratic and religious leaders, and its military forces. In the mid-1300s, the city’s mainly German merchants and artisans, wanting a little autonomy from the city’s rulers — at the time,
Tallinn vital statistics: Population (2018): 450,830 (city proper); 610,468 (metro) Latitude & longitude: 59˚ 26′ 14″ N, 24˚ 44′ 43″ E January average temperature: High -1˚C (30.2˚F), low -5.9˚C (21.4˚F) July average temperature: High 21.9˚C (71.4˚F), low 12.7˚C (54.9˚F) Time zone: GMT+3 (7 hours ahead of U.S. EDT) Language: Estonian Currency: Euro (€) Exchange rate: