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EST: Tallinn Old Town

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Tallinn, Estonia Tallinn is the capital and the largest city of Estonia. It retains its walled Old Town, which is known as Vanalinn in the local language. Covering an area of 110 hectares with a population count of no less than 4,500, Vanalinn was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997 due to its exceptionally intact 13th century city plan.

EST: St. Olaf's Church

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Lai 50, Tallinn, Estonia Daily: 10.00am - 6.00pm Given its towering spire, St. Olaf's Church is an unmissable landmark in Tallinn Old Town. No one exactly knows when the church was built, but the first known written record about it points to the 13th century, as well as the fact that it was extensively rebuilt in the 14th century.

EST: St. Peter and St. Paul's Cathedral

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Vene 18, Tallinn, Estonia Daily: 10.00am - 5.00pm After visiting St. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Paramaribo, Suriname earlier, my BFF and I dropped by its counterpart in Tallinn Old Town. Not constructed from wood unlike the former, St. Peter and St. Paul's Cathedral was the first cathedral that we went to in Tallinn. It took three years to be completed from 1841 to 1844.

EST: Tallinn Passenger Port

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Old City Harbour, Tallinn, Estonia One of the five ports within the state-owned company Port of Tallinn, Tallinn Passenger Port is the biggest and busiest in Estonia. As the main gateway to Tallinn Old Town, it has seen a steady increase in the number of passengers annually, which has almost doubled from approximately 5.7 million in 2001.

EST: Tallink MS Megastar

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Helsinki-Tallinn (2h)                         Tallinn-Helsinki (2h) ETD: 10.30am (GMT + 3)                ETD: 7.30pm (GMT + 3) ETA:  12.30pm (GMT + 3)                ETA: 9.30pm (GMT + 3) Tallink is an Estonian maritime transportation company that was founded in 1989. Its history can be traced back to 1965 when the Soviet Union-based Estonian Shipping Company started introducing passenger ferry services between Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia.

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