Restoran Olde Hansa

This guide to Restoran Olde Hansa in Tallinn opens on the day in August sixteen fifty-four when the old market warehouse at Vana turg collapsed, a building that held Tallinn's centuries-old monopoly on foreign merchants' goods. You'll hear about the fines levied on smugglers who tried to store goods elsewhere, and about the masons who rebuilt the storehouse within two years, deeper-celled and thicker-walled than before. By the late sixteen hundreds it was known simply as the Package building, still guarding the same trade generations later.