Patkuli Viewing Platform

This guide to the Patkuli Viewing Platform in Tallinn starts with the Danish king Valdemar the Second on a summer night in 1219, celebrating what he thought was a finished conquest after Estonian chieftains knelt before him at the foot of this hill. You'll hear how that celebration curdled once the men who had appeared to submit slipped back through the dark toward the Danish camp below. Look down over the slope now called the Danish King's Garden while you listen, at the same towers and harbor that watched it happen.