The swan pond
A wooden pavilion in the water.
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Kumu for Estonian art from the eighteenth century to the contemporary, its building itself a masterpiece โ the first choice for one visit; the palace for old European art in Baroque halls.
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A park a tsar built for his wife: in 1718 Peter the Great ordered an Italianate palace and garden east of Tallinn and named it Kadriorg, "Catherine's valley", for his wife Catherine I โ and it is now the capital's loveliest and most used park. Seventy hectares of old trees and straight avenues: the Baroque flower garden behind the palace with its pool and fountain, the swan pond with its wooden pavilion (the park's most photographed scene), the small house Peter himself lived in during construction, the President's residence, and modern Japanese gardens. It holds museums too: Kadriorg Palace itself with old foreign art, and the vast Kumu museum of Estonian art in its contemporary building at the park's edge. Tram 1 or 3 from the centre reaches it in ten minutes โ and from it you can walk on to Pirita beach.
A wooden pavilion in the water.
Behind the palace with its fountain.
The cottage the tsar lived in during construction.
Weizenbergi 26, Tallinn