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Highlights include Baltic Station and Market, House of Peter the Great, Japanese Garden, Kadriorg Palace, Kalamaja Cemetery Park, Kalamaja Museum.

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  1. Baltic Station and Market: story on the “Kalamaja and Noblessner: From the Station to the Sea” route

    This is where we will begin talking about how the railway determined Kalamaja’s location and future growth.

  2. House of Peter the Great: story on the “Kadriorg: Palaces, Gardens, and Art” route

    Here, restoration will save the tsar's house, but will add a room that did not exist under its previous owner.

  3. Japanese Garden: story on the “Kadriorg: Palaces, Gardens, and Art” route

    The garden will show that a foreign tradition is preserved not by copying plants, but by working precisely with the local terrain and climate.

  4. Kadriorg Palace: story on the “Kadriorg: Palaces, Gardens, and Art” route

    This stop traces how a summer imperial residence stood empty, lost its furnishings, and acquired a museum life.

  5. Kalamaja Cemetery Park: story on the “Kalamaja and Noblessner: From the Station to the Sea” route

    The surviving gates help you read the park as the grounds of an old necropolis, rather than an ordinary city garden.

  6. Kalamaja Museum: story on the “Kalamaja and Noblessner: From the Station to the Sea” route

    Here, the district will appear not as a collection of dates, but as a home that its residents filled with their things and voices.

  7. Kiek in de Kök and the western fortifications: story on the “Tallinn Old Town: Lower Town and Toompea” route

    This stop will connect the filled breach with the fate of the shoemaker who commanded the garrison.

  8. Kohtuotsa Viewing Platform: story on the “Tallinn Old Town: Lower Town and Toompea” route

    The final view will show why city architects studied every roof.

  9. Kumu Art Museum: story on the “Kadriorg: Palaces, Gardens, and Art” route

    The final stop will explain how the national collection, after a long wait, received permanent galleries, storage rooms, and workshops.

  10. Noblessner Port: story on the “Kalamaja and Noblessner: From the Station to the Sea” route

    The final stop will restore the route’s industrial scale and show what order this harbor was created for.

  11. Patarei: story on the “Kalamaja and Noblessner: From the Station to the Sea” route

    The story of one teenager will connect the stone complex with the only French convoy sent to the Baltic states.

  12. Pikk Street and the Great Guild: story on the “Tallinn Old Town: Lower Town and Toompea” route

    Here you will learn how a merchants’ corporation could punish loyalty to its rivals.

  13. Presidential Palace: story on the “Kadriorg: Palaces, Gardens, and Art” route

    One working building links the first presidential term, the Soviet change of power, and the return of the Office of the President of the Republic.

  14. Seaplane Harbour: story on the “Kalamaja and Noblessner: From the Station to the Sea” route

    Two rescue operations come together here: repairing thin concrete shells and lifting a submarine onto land.

  15. St. Olaf's Church: story on the “Tallinn Old Town: Lower Town and Toompea” route

    The story of one decision made at night will show the cost of saving the neighboring houses.

  16. Swan Pond: story on the “Kadriorg: Palaces, Gardens, and Art” route

    Here you will see how visitors’ habits changed the birds’ fate, and how a gifted pair gave the body of water its new name.

  17. Telliskivi: story on the “Kalamaja and Noblessner: From the Station to the Sea” route

    This stop explains how empty workshops were filled with tenants without a ready-made project or city subsidies.

  18. Toompea Castle: story on the “Tallinn Old Town: Lower Town and Toompea” route

    Here you will see why the parliamentary chamber was built on the foundations of a burned-down prison.

  19. Town Hall Pharmacy: story on the “Tallinn Old Town: Lower Town and Toompea” route

    This stop explains why supplying medicines became a matter for the city council.

  20. Town Hall Square: story on the “Tallinn Old Town: Lower Town and Toompea” route

    Here, the medieval principle of equal justice will be tested on a wealthy manor owner.

  21. Upper Garden: story on the “Kadriorg: Palaces, Gardens, and Art” route

    The restored parterres will set the scene for a conversation about a state visit that left more behind in the ground than in politics.

  22. Vana-Kalamaja Street and Tallinn houses: story on the “Kalamaja and Noblessner: From the Station to the Sea” route

    From the facades, you will see how an inexpensive apartment building was adapted to fire regulations and workers’ needs.

  23. Viru Gates: story on the “Tallinn Old Town: Lower Town and Toompea” route

    Here it will become clear how new urban transport changed a medieval entrance.