Baltic Sea 2022

Tallinn

Headless monk statue
Then we find a strongly fortified part of the wall, with statues of monks with no heads inside their hollow habit cappucci, and information about historical anecdotes behind Estonian independence and history. As the legend has it, at the Battle of Lindanise (Tallinn), 1219, the Danes turned the tide of the battle when a Danish flag fell from the sky. In fact, the name Tallinn comes from Estonian for “Danish castle”, because they built the castle after winning the battle.

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