Tallinn, Estonia
Date: 2012-05-17
From Princess Cruises description of this port:
Like Latvia and Lithuania, the Baltic republic of Estonia has survived a turbulent history. The small nation was conquered and ruled by the likes of Teutonic Knights, Polish princes and Russian Tsars. For 51 years, Estonia remained a pawn in the Soviet empire, until the burgeoning freedom movement led to independence for the Baltic Republics in 1991. Like its sister republics, Estonia maintained its ties to the Western tradition, retaining the Latin alphabet and Catholic and Protestant faiths. Once a member of the historic Hanseatic League, Tallinn is the political, commercial and cultural center of Estonia.
To know and experience a city is better to walk through the city, I have found it is a beautiful city. This is the first time to know to enter a place from my youth history class - Baltic 3 small nations were under Soviet Union control after WWII.
