Tallinn

Tallinn - darkometer rating : 3 - The capital and largest city of Estonia is the smallest but most touristy of the three Baltic capitals (the others being Riga in Latvia and Vilnius in Lithuania ). Mainstream tourism is centred on the exceptionally picturesque Old Town, but for dark tourists there are quite a few things to discover both in and outside the centre as well. > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos What there is to see: Being primarily a mainstream tourist attraction, Tallinn reveals its darker sides a little more reluctantly compared to other Baltic cities. But even in the centre there are a few points of interest to the dark tourist; others are bit further out. Some of these should (or have to) be visited as part of a guided tour. Occupation museum KGB Cells Viru KGB museum Maarjamäe memorial complex Contemporary History Museum Soviet Tallinn Bronze Soldier and military cemetery Patarei prison Seaplane Harbour TV Tower Estonian War Museum In addition to these places, one of the more visible monuments to a tragic chapter in modern history is the “Broken Line” memorial that commemorates the 852 lives lost in one of the worst ferry disasters ever, when the “MS Estonia” RoRo car-and-passenger ferry en route from Tallinn to Stockholm capsized and sank in 1994 under somewhat dubious circumstances. The main part of the memorial consists of two steel beams emerging from the ground at low angles and not quite meeting in the middle (hence 'broken line'). Plaques either side of the memorial explain its significance in Estonian and English.