Every photograph below was taken by us, on a trip we took ourselves. Nothing here is stock, and nothing shows a place we have not stood in.
The Viru Gate towers at the entrance to the Old Town
The knitwear stalls backed onto the medieval wall
Red roofs and the wall walk from the rampart
The vaulted passage inside a wall tower
An art nouveau front on a corner
St Olaf's tower above the street
The vaulted nave of a Gothic church
The Towers' Square garden below the wall
At the Toompea viewpoint over the Old Town
The black onion domes of Alexander Nevsky
The teal and gold vaulting inside Alexander Nevsky
Town Hall Square through an upper window
Roofs and spires from above the wall
The white front of the Catholic church on Vene
One of the great round towers of the wall
The painted dome inside Alexander Nevsky
The Old Town and the sea beyond
Rooftops running down toward the harbor
Wall towers and the spire behind them
The entrance sign to the Hotel Viru KGB museum
The KGB radio room, uniform and work plan on the wall
Vabamu, the Museum of Occupations and Freedom
Inhumanity, projected across the floor
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The three victories of advanced socialism, on the wall
Beside the bronze monk, the church behind
Gothic lettering on the carved door
On the square, the wall towers behind
Souvenir stalls along the wall lane
The spiral stair inside the tower
The old town roofs from above
An arrow slit in the wall
Stone arches along the cobbled lane
A carving cut into the stone
The lettering on an old slab
Through the vaulted passage
The lamp and the table in the cell
The door of the cell
The bolt on the door
A narrow standing cell
The corner of a cell
The carved door standing open
The inscription on the door
The town and the sea from the tower
The iconostasis, gold on blue
Beside the hooded figure
Under the church tower
The white tower of the church
The steps up to Toompea
Leaded windows over the rooftops
Goat's cheese on a salad
The soup, nearly finished
At the viewpoint, the old town below
Out to the port from the roof
The uniforms and the radios in the KGB museum
Under the lamp in the KGB museum
A tram on the ring road
The towers over the traffic
Concrete and seats outside the hall
The port from above Thinking about Estonia?
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