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Patarei Sea Fortress and Prison

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Patarei Sea Fortress and Prison

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Patarei Sea Fortress and Prison

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Location: Harju, Estonia

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1. Pirita Beach Forest Cycle Path – Tallinn Waterfront Promenade loop from Tallinn

34.3km

02:02

140m

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2. Cycling Highway – Tallinn Waterfront Promenade loop from Hiiu

39.2km

02:18

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3. Pirita Beach Forest Cycle Path – Tallinn Waterfront Promenade loop from Haabneeme

52.2km

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Franky_D.

August 9, 2021

The sea fortress Patarei in Tallinn (originally battery of the sea fortress of Emperor Peter the Great), which is part of the European architectural heritage, is a classical defensive structure that has been preserved in a pure style. It is a memorial to the victims of communism and national socialism and a powerful symbol of the resistance struggle of the martyrs of the Estonian Republic of Estonia.
The building was put into service as an artillery battery and then served as a barracks and prison.
In the Prison Paterei the exhibition “Communism is a prison” can be visited, which informs about the ideology and the crimes of communism as well as about the history of the building. The exhibition area covers around 1,200 square meters in the east wing. The real equipment of the prison, the prisoners' boxes for the courtyard walk and the prison yard have been preserved there.
Source: visitestonia.com/de/ausstellungsbereich-von-gefangnis-und-seefestung-patarei

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Hartmut

June 14, 2023

In the center of the city of Tallinn on the shore of the Gulf of Finland is a place of dark history, the Patarei Sea Fortress and former prison.

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Location: Harju, Estonia

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Patarei Sea Fortress and Prison

1. Pirita Beach Forest Cycle Path – Tallinn Waterfront Promenade loop from Tallinn

2. Cycling Highway – Tallinn Waterfront Promenade loop from Hiiu

3. Pirita Beach Forest Cycle Path – Tallinn Waterfront Promenade loop from Haabneeme

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