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Tallinn Old Town

One of Europe's best-preserved medieval town centres, its walled Lower Town and hilltop Upper Town founded around a 13th-century Teutonic Order castle - Tallinn (then Reval) grew immensely wealthy from 1285 as the northernmost Hanseatic League outpost, its merchant houses, guild halls and church towers still largely intact from that era.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1285 CE mainstream
  Tallinn joins the Hanseatic League source
• 1997 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site source

Where

59.4372° N, 24.7453° E

Sources

• https://www.historyhit.com/locations/tallinn-old-town/
• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/822

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