Toompea
Toompea is a hill in the central part of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. The hill has an area of 7 hectares and is about 20–30 metres higher than the surrounding areas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hill with an elevation of 59 metres
- Description: hill in Tallinn, Estonia
- Also known as: “Toompe Hill” and “Vyshgorod”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Mary’s Cathedral and St. Nicholas Church.
St Mary’s Cathedral
Church
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St. Mary's Cathedral is a Lutheran cathedral church located on the Toompea hill in the medieval central part of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. Established in the 13th century, it is the oldest church in Tallinn and mainland Estonia, and the only building in Toompea which survived the 17th-century fire.
St. Nicholas Church
Museum
Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
St. Nicholas Church is a medieval church building in Tallinn, Estonia. It was dedicated to Saint Nicholas, the patron of the fishermen and sailors. Originally built as a Catholic church in the 13th century, it turned Lutheran during the Protestant Reformation in 1520s.
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
Church
Photo: Mitten, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of Tallinn is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in central Tallinn, Estonia. It was built in 1894–1900, when the country was part of the former Russian Empire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kesklinn and Kalamaja.
Kesklinn
Suburb
Photo: Pjotr Mahhonin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kesklinn is one of the 8 administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is situated on the Tallinn Bay and bordered to the northwest by the district of Põhja-Tallinn, to the west by Kristiine, to the southwest by Nõmme, to the east by Lasnamäe and Pirita, and to the south by Rae Parish, beyond Lake Ülemiste.
Kalamaja
Quarter
Photo: Aleksandr Abrosimov, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kalamaja is a subdistrict of the district of Põhja-Tallinn in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It is located just northwest of the historical town centre, on the coast of the Tallinn Bay.
Toompea
- Category: landform
- Location: Kesklinna linnaosa, Tallinn, Harju, North Estonia, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Toompea” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Վերին քաղաք”
- Azerbaijani: “Toompea”
- Basque: “Toompea”
- Belarusian: “Вышгарад”
- Belarusian: “Тоомпэа”
- Bulgarian: “Тоомпеа”
- Cebuano: “Toompea”
- Chinese: “主教座堂山”
- Chinese: “座堂山”
- Danish: “Toompea”
- Dutch: “Domberg”
- Dutch: “Toompea”
- Esperanto: “Toompea”
- Estonian: “Toompea mägi”
- Estonian: “Toompea”
- Finnish: “Toompea”
- French: “Toompea”
- Galician: “Toompea”
- Georgian: “ვიშგოროდი”
- Georgian: “ტოომპეა”
- German: “Domberg”
- German: “Toompea”
- Hungarian: “Toompea”
- Indonesian: “Toompea”
- Italian: “Collina di Toompea”
- Italian: “Toompea”
- Japanese: “トームペア”
- Japanese: “トゥームペア”
- Korean: “톰페아”
- Latvian: “Domkalns”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Toompea”
- Persian: “تومپئا”
- Polish: “Toompea”
- Romanian: “Toompea”
- Russian: “Вышгород”
- Russian: “Тоомпеа”
- Serbian: “Томпеа”
- Slovenian: “Toompea”
- Spanish: “Toompea”
- Swedish: “Domberget, Tallinn”
- Swedish: “Domberget”
- Swedish: “Toompea”
- Turkish: “Toompea”
- Ukrainian: “Тоомпеа”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Toompea”. Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.