Visitors are enchanted by the narrow winding streets, cobbled pavement and towering ramparts. Opera and concerts, art exhibitions and antique shops, fine museums and well-stocked shops add the final touch to what the inquisitive traveller might expect from a city as varied as Tallinn. The Romantic West Coast Estonia has hundreds of kilometres of coastline. Enjoying the Baltic Sea includes sailing, watersport, swimming and sunbathing on white sandy beaches in summer. Visitors can take curing mud baths at health spas.
Estonian nature is in many cases better preserved than in many Western nations.
The bustling small towns and picturesque villages still carry the stories of pagan legends and fairy tales. Numerous folklore festivals of traditional arts and crafts are genuine expressions of a thriving local culture, not merely staged for visitors. Where Two Cultures Meet The closer one gets to the Russian border in the North East, the more one discovers the heady mix of Russian and Estonian cultures. The famous Russian city of Saint-Petersburg being at easy reach from there. Neo-classicist manor houses and ancient ruins contrast with the remains of the Soviet industry in the region.