Tallinn

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Tallinn City of Heritage and Culture
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Tallinn Cultural Heritage Department

• Heritage Division
• Division of Milieu areas
• Culture Division

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The Town Hall is the only intact Gothic town hall
in Northern Europe - 1404

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History

• First on the global map 1154
• Lübeck city rights 1248
• Hanseatic League 1285
• Lutheran Reformation 1524
• UNESCO World Heritage list 1997

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Tallinn Church Renaissance

• 22 churches
• 2002 -2006 - ...

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Bastions
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Convent of Pirita
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City Wall
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Until late 1800s St.Olaf Church was the tallest
building ever built.
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The Oldest Continually Working Apothecary in the
World 1422
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St. Catherines Passage
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Milieu areas

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Song and Dance festival
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Festivals

• Baroque Music Festival
• Jazz Music Festival Jazzkaar
• The festival of contemporary music Nyyd
• International Organ Festival
• Theatre festival Midwinter Night Dream
• CIOFF International Choir Festival Baltica
• International film festival Dark Nights Festival
• Beer Summer
• Eastern Music Festival Orient

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Facts and Figures

• Museums 37
• Theatres 10
• Concert halls 14
• Galleries and exhibit halls 40
• Cinemas (one of them is multiplex one, with 15
  showrooms) 3
• Libraries 30

• Tallinn Botanical Garden 1
• Tallinn Zoo 1
• Cultural representations of foreign countries 9
• Cultural societies of minority groups 42
• Leisure and culture centres 15

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Welcome to
Tallinn!

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