SECRETS OF TALLINN - Our Favourite Places Outside of The Old Town! TELLISKIVI, ROTERMANN & KALAMAJA!

In this video we take you on a tour of our top places of Tallinn outside of the Old Town. We start by heading over to Rotermann City within the Rotermann quarter, which until just a few years ago, was just a factory area between Old Town and the Passenger Port and was little more than a collection of dilapidated buildings, discarded leftovers of late 19th and early 20th-century industry. Now the area has been magnificently-restored and serves as home to a number of shops and restaurants, as well as an active cultural scene. The quarter's main square is often used for festivals and outdoor performances.
After eating lunch in Rotermann city we then make our way over to the Kalamaja district with our first stop being the Linnahall which upon initial sight doesn’t look very aesthetically pleasing but what lies beneath it is a huge amphitheatre designed to hold 4500 people. It was originally named the V. I. Lenin Palace of Culture and Sport, and was built by the Soviets for the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics when the sailing events were hosted in Estonia. Now it is a vast, dilapidated building that although is in need of some serious renovation is still nonetheless fascinating to see up close and offers stunning views over the bay of Tallinn once you reach the top.
From the Linnahall we continue walking through Kalamaja along the bay and over to Patarei prison which was originally built in 1828 as a sea fortress and later turned into a prison where crimes of Communism and Nazism took place between 1940-1991. For 8€ you can visit the exhibition, ‘Communism is Prison’ in the eastern wing of the prison, where you can see the original interior and prison yard.
From there we take a quick look at the historical Seaplane harbour museum which is 15€ per adult and looks fascinating. We also take a walk around Suur Tõll, the largest preserved pre-war icebreaker in the world. Suur Tõll has had a colourful past of ownership between the Russian Empire (1914-1917), The Soviet Union (1917-1918), Finland (1918-1922), Estonia (1922-1940), Soviet Union again (1940-1988), before finally being sold back to Estonia in 1988.
After following the arrows which take you on a full tour of Suur Tõll we head over to Port Noblessener which is a newly and very artistically renovated port area with beautiful apartment blocks, filled with restaurants and great places to sit back and have a drink watching the sun over the bay of Tallinn.
Then we walk through Kalamaja Cemetery Park which links Port Noblessner to the leafy green residential area of Kalamaja and onto our final stop: Telliskivi Creative City which since 2007 has developed from old soviet factories into a vibrant, artist-friendly complex that has spaces for businesses, restaurants, shops and organising events. It is located between the city centre and Kalamaja and Pelgulinn districts in North Tallinn. It is currently Estonia's biggest creative economy enterprise centre bringing together a variety of activities - acting as a community platform for the creatives.
We both love Telliskivi and have spent most of our time in Tallinn living in an apartment building right opposite Depoo which is an area in Telliskivi where old shipping containers and an old train have all been converted into different restaurants with foods from around the world, it’s a really cool place to visit and we walk through it to get to the famous Balti Jaama Turg (Baltic Station Market) which is a place worth visiting in itself!
Travel vlog 28 | Tallinn, Estonia | Country #4 | Filmed July 2020
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