Tallinn is beautiful city. Even more from the top of the tower. It is possible to climb to the top of the Oleviste Church tower and to have a wonderful view of Tallinn. It has been the worlds tallest building between 1549 and 1625 until lightening strike caused it to burn down. Nowadays it is only 123,7 meters. Another interesting fact about this tower is that from 1944 until 1991, the Soviet KGB used Oleviste's spire as a radio tower and surveillance point.
I visited this tower with my cousin and with our 3 kids. We started to climb slowly higher in the dim passage holding on to the ropes on the sides. The air was quite thick inside the tower in this hot summer evening. The higher we reached the dizzier we felt. Kids on another hand ran upstairs. I had to call after them and asked them slow down, no matter, they were quite excited and competed who would reach up first. Halfway through they had some chairs to sit and relax, but not us, we had to catch up with kids. Finally, heavily breathing and catching our breaths we reached the top and wonderful views. Here they are:
The way down was easier and we decided to count steps. We got 234 stone steps, but adding wood ones as well, there is apparently 258 steps all together.
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