TALLINN, Estonia — Street vendors’ cries, colored banners flying, footsteps hurrying across cobblestones, a Babel of foreign tongues, merchants hanging woolens under the town wall. These were the ...

stooped shoulder, their eyes beseeching tourists to drop coins in their brass has boomed, and it joined the European Union in May. The Soviet past lingers, however. Dreary Soviet-style concrete ...

If you head to the north of Europe, north of Germany and Poland, up to the Baltic sea, you’ll eventually hit Finland. Back off a bit, no a bit more that’s Russia, you’ll find Tallinn, Estonia. It’s a ...

Medieval Tallinn is impossibly lovely—pastel-hued buildings, narrow church spires, timbered halls serving game meats and mead. If you go to Estonia’s capital—and you should—you’ll certainly see it.

Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is famous for its well-preserved medieval architecture and cobblestone streets ...

PÄRNU COUNTY, ESTONIA—According to an ERR News report, a medieval Scandinavian arrowhead thought to have been left at the site after a battle has been recovered from a well in southwestern Estonia.

In Tallinn, the end of Soviet rule paved the way for a revival of traditions. Among medieval Nordic cities, none is as well preserved as Tallinn, surrounded by a largely intact wall that includes 26 ...

THE TWISTING streets of Tallinn, Estonia, snake back to the Middle Ages. Every cobblestone, back alley and turret has been restored with a precision that would make Prague proud. Yet in, and around, ...

Tallinn is not the only town in Estonia to get the medieval days treatment – now, the village of Ridala, near Haapsalu, Lääne County had its own, similar celebration, marking the 800th anniversary of ...

The capital of Estonia is perhaps not the place where one would expect to find the remains of medieval ships, but that is exactly what happened to a group of construction workers in Tallinn this week.

HAAPSALU, ESTONIA—ERR News reports that a substantial medieval wall has been uncovered in western Estonia’s town of Haapsalu. The wall, which is located near the town’s current beach promenade, would ...