Estonia
23 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins within 100 km of the city centre: every one on the interactive map, with photos, distances and directions.
The closest is Walls of Tallinn, 1 km south-west of the city centre; the most famous is Suomenlinna (#73 of 9,035 worldwide) 80 km north. The oldest dated site in the circle is Varbola Stronghold, founded c. 950.
The 100 km circle reaches into 2 countries: Estonia (19), Finland (4).
3 km east · Palace & château · #331 worldwide
Kadriorg Palace is an 18th-century Petrine Baroque palace in Kadriorg, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
1 km south-west · Castle
Toompea castle is a medieval castle on Toompea hill in the central part of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.
1 km north-east · Fortress
Fat Margaret is a tower in Tallinn, Estonia. Nowadays, the tower is home to Estonian Maritime Museum.
1 km south-west · Fortress
Kiek in de Kök is an artillery tower in Tallinn, Estonia, built in 1475. It gained the name Kiek in de Kök from the ability of tower occupants to see…
1 km south-west · Castle
Pikk Hermann is a tower of the Toompea Castle, on Toompea hill in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The first part of the tower was built in 1360–1370.
1 km south-west · Fortress
The Walls of Tallinn are the medieval defensive walls constructed around the city of Tallinn in Estonia.
8 km south-west · Palace & château
Glehn Castle is a castle on the hillside of Nõmme, part of Tallinn, Estonia. The manor was designed and established by Nikolai von Glehn on the…
4 km north-east · Palace & château
Maarjamäe Palace is a building in Maarjamäe, Tallinn. The palace is located at the site of the earlier Maarjamäe summer manor, which is its main…
3 km east · Palace & château
The Residence of the President of Estonia, known officially as the Kadriorg Administrative Building, and since 1992 sometimes colloquially as the…
1 km north · Fortress
Patarei Sea Fortress is a coastal battery, part of the seaside fortifications of Tallinn raised in the 19th century, and subsequently, in the years…
46 km south · Ruin
The Varbola Stronghold was the largest circular rampart fortress and trading centre built in Estonia, in Harju County in the 10th – 12th centuries.
80 km north · Fortress · #73 worldwide
Suomenlinna, or Sveaborg, is a sea fortress composed of eight islands, of which six have been fortified.
82 km north · Palace & château
The Presidential Palace is one of the three official residences of the president of the Republic of Finland.
87 km north-west · Ruin
The Raseborg Castle, is a medieval castle in Raseborg, Finland. The castle was active from 1370s to 1553.
88 km south-west · Ruin
Haapsalu Castle is a castle with cathedral in Haapsalu, Estonia, founded in the thirteenth century as the seat of the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek.
82 km north · Palace & château
The Government Palace is the executive office building of the Government of Finland. It overlooks the Senate Square in central Helsinki, Finland.
92 km east · Ruin
Rakvere Castle is an important castle ruin within the town of Rakvere in the north of Estonia.
69 km south-west · Castle
Koluvere Castle, also Koluvere Episcopal Castle,, is a castle in Koluvere, Lääne County, in western Estonia.
98 km east · Ruin
Toolse Castle is the northernmost and most recent of the Livonian castles of present-day Estonia. It lies near the town of Kunda in western Viru.
77 km south-east · Castle
Paide Castle was a castle built by the Livonian Order in Paide, in the Estonian county of Järvamaa.
97 km south-west · Ruin
Leal Castle, at present called Lihula Castle, was an episcopal castle of the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, the ruins of which are in the town of Lihula,…
90 km south-east · Castle
Vao Castle is a medieval residential tower in Vao, Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County.
87 km east · Ruin
Porkuni Castle – a fortified structure in the settlement of Porkuni, in the municipality of Tamsalu in Estonia, today preserved in the form of…
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q1770.
The Castle Map atlas maps 23 landmarks (5 castles · 5 fortresses · 6 palaces & châteaux · 7 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Tallinn, measured straight-line: a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Walls of Tallinn, a fortress 1 km south-west of the city centre.
Suomenlinna, ranked #73 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking: 80 km north from Tallinn.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Varbola Stronghold, founded c. 950: 46 km south. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Helsinki (82 km) · Riga (279 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
