Pirita
The Pirita is a 105 km long river in northern Estonia that drains into the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea in the Pirita district of the capital city Tallinn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Estonia
- Also known as: “Brigiten’”, “Brigitovka”, “Brigitten”, “Piirita”, “Piirita Jõgi”, “Piiritta Jõgi”, “Pirita River”, and “Pirita-Yygi”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pirita convent and Pirita Velodrome.
Pirita convent
Archaeological site
Pirita Convent was a Bridgettine convent for both nuns and monks, located in the district of Pirita in Tallinn, Estonia. It functioned from 1407 to 1575.
Pirita Velodrome
Stadium
Photo: Dmitry G, Public domain.
The Pirita Velodrome is a velodrome and football stadium in the Pirita district of Tallinn, Estonia. It has 1602 seats.
Georg Lurichi monument
Memorial
Photo: Dewdrop12, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Georg Lurichi monument is a memorial.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Miiduranna and Lasnamäe.
Miiduranna
Hamlet
Photo: Dmitry G, Public domain.
Miiduranna is a village in Viimsi Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. It is located about 8 km northeast of the centre of Tallinn, situated just northwest of Tallinn's subdistrict Merivälja, west of the settlement of Viimsi and south of Haabneeme, on the eastern coast of Tallinn Bay. Miiduranna is situated 3½ km north of Pirita.
Lasnamäe
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lasnamäe is the most populous administrative district of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The district's population is about 119,000, the majority of which is Russian-speaking as a result of Soviet settlement policies. Lasnamäe is situated 3½ km south of Pirita.
Pärnamäe
Hamlet
Photo: Aulo Aasmaa, CC BY 3.0.
Pärnamäe is a village in Viimsi Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. It's located about 9 km northeast of the centre of Tallinn, situated just north of Tallinn's subdistrict Mähe and east of the settlement Viimsi. Pärnamäe has a population of 1,191. Pärnamäe is situated 4½ km north of Pirita.
Pirita
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: 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—“Pirita” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պիրիտա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Pirita”
- Belarusian: “Пірыта”
- Belarusian: “Рака Пірыта”
- Cebuano: “Pirita Jõgi”
- Chinese: “皮里塔河”
- Czech: “Pirita jõgi”
- Czech: “Pirita”
- Dutch: “Pirita jogi”
- Dutch: “Pirita jõgi”
- Dutch: “Pirita”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر پيريتا”
- Estonian: “Pirita jõgi”
- Finnish: “Pirita jõgi”
- Finnish: “Piritajoki”
- French: “Pirita”
- Georgian: “პირიტა”
- German: “Pirita jõgi”
- German: “Pirita”
- Hungarian: “Pirita-folyó”
- Hungarian: “Pirita”
- Irish: “Pirita”
- Italian: “Pirita”
- Japanese: “ピリタ川”
- Ladin: “Pirita”
- Latvian: “Pirita”
- Lithuanian: “Pirita”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pirita”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Piritaelven”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Piritafloden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piritaelva”
- Persian: “رود پیریتا”
- Polish: “Pirita”
- Portuguese: “Rio Pirita”
- Russian: “Пирита”
- Serbian: “Пирита”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pirita (rijeka)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pirita”
- Spanish: “Rio Pirita”
- Spanish: “Río Pirita”
- Swedish: “Pirita jõgi”
- Turkish: “Pirita Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Піріта”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pirita Monastery and Pirita Marina.
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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 “Pirita”. Photo: John Serrao, CC BY-SA 2.0.