9th of August 2026 - Tallinn

The capital city of Estonia is Tallinn and is located on a bay in northern Estonia on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea.

Our first visit was to Tallinn’s amphitheatre, the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds (Tallinna Lauluväljak), which is one of Estonia’s most important cultural landmarks and the heart of the country’s massive choral tradition.

The trees around the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds form a green belt that frames the amphitheatre and creates a natural approach to the site. They include the historic oak alley planted in 1969 which acts as a symbolic entrance route and memorial corridor linked to Estonia’s Song Festival tradition.

 

We then visited Toompea Hill, the historic limestone plateau at the heart of Tallinn, which is Estonia’s traditional seat of power.  It rises above Tallinn's beautifully preserved UNESCO-listed medieval Old Town with cobbled lanes, Gothic spires and sturdy stone walls.

The Orthodox church in Tallinn’s Old Town is the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, a late 19th century Russian Orthodox landmark.  It was built in 1900 during the Russian Empire period and features onion domes, black cupolas and a richly decorated façade with mosaics and icons.