Danish King's Garden

This guide to the Danish King's Garden in Tallinn follows Hans Heinrich Falck, a piano tuner who drifted through half a dozen trades before settling into piano making and becoming, by some accounts, the wealthiest Estonian in the city. You'll hear why he spent that fortune not on a mansion but on dirt, financing a new road up Toompea in the 1850s and paying, tree by tree, to plant the bare slopes below the wall. The guide sets his patient, hand-built approach against the more famous legend locals tell about this hillside every June. Look for the old trees along the wall that trace his original planting.