The great hall
White stucco on blue, and summer concerts.
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An Italian Baroque palace at the top of Europe: the Italian architect Nicola Michetti built it for Peter the Great between 1718 and 1725 as a summer residence for the imperial family, pink and white with a formal garden — and it is now the foreign art branch of Estonia's national art museum. The great hall is the masterpiece: a stucco ceiling of raised white forms on blue, among the purest Baroque surviving in the region, used for summer concerts. The floors hold Dutch, German, Italian and Russian painting from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, and imperial furnishings. The Baroque garden behind, with its formal pool and fountain, is free and open, and Peter's little house is minutes away. The place is quieter than the centre's museums and barely crowds at all.
White stucco on blue, and summer concerts.
A Baroque pool and fountain.
Weizenbergi 37, Tallinn
Kadriorg ParkA park a tsar built for his wife: in 1718 Peter the Great ordered an Italianate 3 minutes walk4.9
Kumu Art MuseumThe Baltic states' largest art museum, and its building is an event in itself: K5 minutes walk4.8
Maarjamäe PalaceA nineteenth-century summer palace on the coast east of Tallinn, housing the mod24 minutes walk4.8Tram 1 or 3 for ten minutes to the Kadriorg stop, then a five-minute walk through the park.