Nun Tower and Walls

This guide to Nun Tower and Walls in Tallinn opens with the origin of its odd name, a stone lookout built in the early 1300s beside the convent of Saint Michael's nuns, barely wide enough for a single soldier to stand watch. It traces the tower's growth as Hanseatic Tallinn grew richer and more fearful, adding a second fighting floor with gun ports for heavy and light firearms. You'll hear how the soldiers eventually left and the tiny tower was swallowed into a house, patched across the twentieth century. Walk the short stretch of wall linking it to the Sauna and Golden Foot towers, tracing the same path those first watchmen paced.