Tallinn City Guide
Estonia's capital city, tucked right up at the northeastern extremity of Europe on the shores of the Baltic Sea, has been hailed as the ‘New Prague' and justifiably so, though it is more compact and easier to get around.
Until 1991, Tallinn was clamped under the confines of Soviet rule, but since it broke free in a bloodless revolution, it has made up for five decades of lost independence by switching seamlessly from communism to capitalism.
Marx is out and mobile phones are in with the city so switched on (with one of the highest mobile phone ownership rates in the world and Internet cafes and Wi-Fi hotspots springing up all over Tallinn) that the locals like to call their increasingly high-tech country E-stonia.
On the fringes of the old core a new district is emerging, with gleaming new hotels and offices, as Estonia thrives in the EU membership it attained in 2004. Anyone arriving in Tallinn with anachronistic images of what an old Soviet Bloc city should look like will be as surprised by this new skyline as they will be by the charming old core.
Russian orthodox churches and Dominican monasteries share the streets with old merchant houses and medieval meeting halls and Tallinn's atmospheric old town, steeped in history, is best explored on foot.
Art and culture in Tallinn is taken as seriously by locals as the fun-filled and unpretentiously raucous nightlife.
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