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Tour III · Craft & Trade

Artisan Quarter

Glassblowers, weavers, and the makers still working by hand in the lanes behind the market.

Duration75min
Stops16
Distance3.2km
DifficultyEasy
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The route · 16 Stops · 3.2 km

Stop by stop.

01

SaiakangStart

The White Bread Passage — the shortest, oldest lane in Tallinn, where bakers once sold loaves through the windows. The walk begins among the guilds.

02

St Canute's Guild Hall

The hall of the artisans' guild of St Canute — smiths, tailors and shoemakers — its facade crowned with figures of Luther and the guild's patron.

03

Estonian Handicraft House

A working showcase of Estonian folk craft — knitwear, woodwork, leather and linen, made the way they have been for centuries.

04

Green Market Chapel

Rohelise Turu kabel — a tiny one-room chapel that served as a telephone exchange and a kiosk before becoming a chapel again, having outlived every use the city gave it.

05

Lai Street

Broad Street — the old craftsmen's quarter, lined with workshops and the merchant houses of the makers who supplied the town.

06

St Olaf's Guild

By St Olaf's Church stands the hall of the Olaf's Guild at Pikk 24 — the masons, coopers and weavers whose hands raised medieval Tallinn, and the named masters behind its spire.

07

Bremen Tower

A medieval prison tower later wrapped in neo-Gothic brick and lost for fifty years behind a curtain of creepers — the Old Town's sleeping-beauty castle.

08

Uus tänav

The New Street — home to Tallinn's oldest surviving timber house, and to the smithy that once forged the anchors and axes of the harbour.

09

Viru Gate

The city's eastern door, where the potters dug their clay and the road to market passed beneath the gate towers.

10

The Sweater Wall

Knitters have sold hand-made wool along this stretch of medieval wall for generations. The patterns are regional, and each one means something.

11

St Catherine's Passage

The most beautiful lane in the Old Town, lined with the open studios of the St Catherine's Guild — glass, ceramics, hats and quilts.

12

Masters' Courtyard

A hidden cobbled yard off Vene Street, home to chocolatiers and a café where the recipes are older than the makers.

13

Hopner House

A medieval merchant's house on Town Hall Square, crowned by Christian Ackermann's carved oak portal of 1681.

14

Koort's Goat Garden

Kitseaed — sculptor Jaan Koort's small garden, where his bronze roe deer keeps the quiet and the old craft of casting is remembered.

15

Gustav Adolf School

Beneath the oldest school in Estonia lie the vaults of a Cistercian nunnery — step inside to the hidden Angel Courtyard.

16

Loewenschede TowerFinish

A medieval wall tower turned textile studio, where weavers work at the loom inside fifteenth-century stone.