Tallinn, the Capital of Estonia lays only about 80 km / 50miles south of Helsinki, across Gulf of Finland.
We hopped on an overnight ferry, had few Bacardi Breezers, and slept in our tiny cabin. The ferry arrived in Tallinn around midnight, but part of the deal was that we could stay in our cabin until 8am next morning. We had cold buffet breakfast on the boat and then took off.
We brought our Lonely planet: Scandinavian Europe guide with us, mainly because of the town map but ended up helping us find a wonderful place to eat lunch.
We decided to head in the tallest spire direction. Which we found out later was the spire of St. Olav’s church, it was once the tallest building in the world with height of 159m / 521ft (Between 1549 and 1625 AD precisely).
We entered through Lower Town, continued to Dominican monastery, which was built in 1246. Then we headed to Toompea limestone hill, or so called upper town.
The largest orthodox cupola cathedral in Tallinn is situated on the castle square, built in Russian revival style during era when Estonia was part of the Russian Empire.
We checked one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe, mentioned in historical documents in 1422, and tiny marzipan museum where marzipan was invented near by Town Hall square. We wondered around being astonished by the architecture of old town merchant houses belonging to guilds and the castle walls and towers (they are still about 26 in Tallinn) which look right out of medieval times with the stone and wood works.
Olde Hansa is name of a medieval restaurant, where we had our lunch. Medieval with everything you can imagine that belongs to it (historical building, waiters wearing historical costumes, food and drinks served in replica pottery and glass, medieval music, candles everywhere, even medieval type of restrooms), food was delicious and service was really good.
The whole Tallinn old town belongs to UNESCO world heritage list for being unique, complete and a well preserved example of a medieval northern European trading city.
Vylet do Talinu
Talin, hlavni mesto Estonska, se nachazi jen 80 km jizne od Helsinek pres Finsky zaliv.
Koupili jsme si listky na nocni trajekt, dali jsme si par Bacardi michanych napoju a prespali jsme v male kabince.
Nas trajekt dorazil do Talinu uz o pulnoci, ale listek nam platil az do rana a tak jsme mohli pouzivat kabinu az do 8 rano dalsiho dne. Dali jsme si snidani na lodi a vyrazili do temneho rana.
Vzali jsme si s sebou naseho pruvodce po Skandinavii, hlavne kvuli mape Talinu, ale nakonec jsme diky nemu objevili uzasne misto, kde jsme poobedvali.
Rozhodli jsme se vyrazit smerem k nejvyssi vezi, kterou jsme videli z pristavu. Pozdeji se ukazalo, ze se jednalo o vez kostela Sv. Olafa, tato budova byla v davnych letech nejvyssi na svete – 159 m, presne mezi 1549- 1625 nl.
Do stareho mesta jsme prisli dolnim mestem, pokracovali jsme do Dominikanskeho klastera, ktery byl zalozen 1246. Pak jsme se sli podivat do Horniho mesta, neboli Toompei. V centru hradniho namesti se nachazi ortodoxni katedrala Alexandra Nevskeho, ktera byla postavena v ere, kdy Estonsko spadalo pod nadvladu Carskeho Ruska.
Podivali jsme se i do jedne z nejstarsich lekaren v Evrope na radnicnim namesti, tato byla zalozena r. 1422, a taky do malinkeho marcipanoveho muzea, kde jsme se dozvedeli, ze vyroba marcipanu vlastne pochazi z Estonska, marcipan byl puvodne vyraben jako lecebny produkt.
Prochazeli jsme se po starem meste s uzasem nad stredovekou architekturou kupeckych domu rozlicnych cechu, domu se zachovanymi vetrnymi korouhvickami, a kladkami na stitech pro vytahovani zbozi do skladovych prostoru. Zasli jsme nad zachovalosti mestskych hradeb a obranych vezi, kterych ma Talin kolem 26.
Olde Hansa je stredoveka restaurace, kde jsme si dali bajecny obed. Stredoveka se vsim, co si dokazete predstavit ( stredoveky interier, obsluha ve stredovekych krojich, s dobovou hudbou, jidlo a piti podavaji ve stredovekych replikach, dokonce i toalety v duchu davnych dob). Jidlo bylo vytecne i obsluha moc dobra.
Cele stare mesto Talina patri na seznam UNESCO svetoveho dedictvi. Je to jedinecne celistvy a zachovaly priklad stredovekeho obchodniho mesta severni Evropy.
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