Rotermann Quarter


With impressive contemporary architecture wedged between 19th-century brick warehouses, this development has transformed an outmoded (if historically very valuable) factory complex into the city's swankiest shopping and dining precinct. If you're not eating in at one of the many restaurants, an artisanal baker and butcher, together with a well-stocked cheese shop, make it a good place to stock up on supplies.


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1. Architecture Museum

0.12 MILES

A restored limestone warehouse – the former Rotermann Salt Store – houses this modest museum, displaying building and town models (many of them from…

2. Hotel Viru KGB Museum

0.13 MILES

The Hotel Viru (1972) was not only Estonia’s first skyscraper, but literally the only place for tourists to stay in Tallinn at the time. Having all the…

3. St Nicholas' Orthodox Church

0.29 MILES

Built in 1827 on the site of an earlier Catholic church appearing in 15th-century records, St Nicholas' was the focal point for the Russian traders that…

5. St Catherine's Church

0.31 MILES

Perhaps Tallinn’s oldest building, St Catherine's Monastery was founded by Dominican monks in 1246. In its glory days it had its own brewery and hospital…

6. City Museum

0.32 MILES

Tallinn’s City Museum is actually split over seven different sites. This location, its main branch, is set in a 14th-century merchant’s house and traces…

7. KGB Prison Cells

0.36 MILES

Formerly producing hushed dread in Tallinn's Soviet-era citizens, the KGB headquarters at Pagari 1 is now a historical site, and the Museum of Occupations…

8. St Olaf's Church

0.37 MILES

From 1549 until 1625, when its 159m steeple was struck by lightning and burnt down, this (now Baptist) church was one of the tallest buildings in the…