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★ Hat eine eigene Stadtgeschichte
A medieval Hanseatic town, island windmills, deep forests and a country that sang its way to freedom.
Estonia is small, with about 1.3 million people, but it has kept its own language, songs and stories through centuries of foreign rule. Walk the towers and cobbled streets of Tallinn, see Estonian art at Kumu, step into old farmhouses at the Open Air Museum and learn how Estonians live at the National Museum in Tartu. Plan your museum days on museumtickets.com, then take a sauna, eat black rye bread and listen for the songs.
Hanseatic merchants, empires and a revolution of songs.
Danish knights build a castle on Toompea hill; the name Tallinn is often explained as 'Danish town'.
Zu sehen in: Kiek in de KökTallinn, then called Reval, joins the Hanseatic League and grows rich on trade between Russia and the West.
Zu sehen in: Tallinn City MuseumThe Swedish king founds the university in Tartu, which becomes the heart of Estonian learning.
Zu sehen in: University of Tartu MuseumEstonia declares independence on 24 February 1918 and wins it in the War of Independence.
Zu sehen in: Estonian History MuseumEstonia is occupied by the Soviet Union, then by Nazi Germany, then again by the Soviet Union; many people are deported or flee.
Zu sehen in: Vabamu Museum of Occupations and FreedomHundreds of thousands gather at the Song Festival Grounds to sing forbidden national songs.
Zu sehen in: Estonian History MuseumEstonia restores its independence on 20 August 1991.
Zu sehen in: Vabamu Museum of Occupations and FreedomPoets, a painter's model of a nation and the first woman president.
The poet of the national awakening (1843–1886). Her poem 'My fatherland is my love' became a second anthem that people sang when the real one was forbidden.
Zu sehen in: Koidula Memorial MuseumOne of the great Estonian poets of the 20th century, nominated many times for the Nobel Prize; she wrote in exile in Sweden after 1944.
Zu sehen in: Estonian Literary MuseumIn 2016 she became Estonia's first woman president, and the youngest head of state in the country's history.
From a Tallinn painter at the Spanish court to the moods of Konrad Mägi.
Born in Tallinn around 1469, he became court painter to Queen Isabella of Castile, then came home to paint in his native town.
His 'Danse Macabre', a long painting of Death dancing with pope, king and peasant, survives in St Nicholas' Church in Tallinn.
The first great Estonian painter of the 19th century, who painted peasants and portraits with pride.
Painter of glowing landscapes of Saaremaa, Norway and Italy in the early 20th century; see him at Kumu and in Tartu.
He drew the heroes of the national epic Kalevipoeg in strong black lines.
Black bread, smoked fish and a flour you eat with a spoon.
Dark, slightly sweet black bread (leib) is on every table; Estonians bring it home from abroad because they miss it.
Black bread with butter, spiced sprats, egg and green onion: the classic snack.
A flour of roasted grains and peas, stirred into kefir or buttermilk for breakfast or a dessert.
Blood sausage with lingonberry jam, eaten at Christmas.
Mashed potatoes and barley with fried bacon and onion, from the Mulgi region in the south.
Sledges in winter, bonfires at midsummer and songs every five years.
Families go sledging, eat pea soup and cream buns; a long slide promises a good harvest of flax.
The most loved holiday: bonfires burn through the light night, and people look for the fern flower in the forest.
Tens of thousands of singers stand on the stage of the Song Festival Grounds in Tallinn; UNESCO lists the Baltic song festivals as intangible heritage.
Children dress up and go from door to door with songs and wishes, as Martin's and Catherine's mummers.
The Town Hall Square in Tallinn fills with stalls and a big tree; Tallinn and Riga both claim the first public Christmas tree.
Tallinn's old town is hilly and cobbled; wear flat shoes.
Trains run between Tallinn and Tartu; it is easy to visit both.
Ferries take you to Saaremaa and Hiiumaa; Saaremaa is reached by ferry to Muhu and a causeway.
Many museums close one day a week; check before you go.
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