59.388065, 24.036798
GPS: 59° 23' 17" N, 24° 2' 12" E
The height of the limestone cliff at the top of the Pakri peninsula is 24–25 m. Unlike Ontika with its opulent Klint vegetation, the Pakri Cliff wall offers a cross section of all limestone layers in the course of several kilometres. Black guillemot, quite unique in Estonia, lives in the cracks of the cliff.
Location: Pikk 70, Kesklinn, Tallinn, Harjumaa, 10133
Standing guard at the north end of Pikk street are two of Tallinn's most impressive defensive structures, the Great Coastal Gate (Suur Rannavärav) and Fat Margaret tower (Paks Margareeta).
They were built not only to defend the city from the seaw...
The first limestone lighthouse is known to have been erected on the Pakri peninsula in 1724.
The location was allegedly picked by czar Peter the Great himself. In 1889, a new limestone lighthouse was built about 80m away from the old one, which w...
A legend says local peasants received a miraculous relevation on this hill and later on found an Orthodox icon most holy under the oak-tree here, a sacrificial one itself. All of this happened in the 16th century.
To honor those events a chapel was e...
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