Viimsi day tour
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Viimsi day tour

A cycling route starting in Tallinn, Harju, Estonia.

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About this route

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This tour takes you to one of the most popular areas in Tallinn, Pirita and Viimsi peninsula known for its nature and beaches. Bike road with great views to the sea and city, is just next to the sea all the way to the top of Viimsi Peninsula.

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Duration
55.2 km
Distance
148 m
Ascent
172 m
Descent
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Avg. speed
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Avg. speed
CityBike Tallinn
CityBike Tallinn

created this 8 years ago

Route quality

Waytypes & surfaces along the route

Waytypes

  • Cycleway

    31.4 km

    (57 %)

  • Quiet road

    6.8 km

    (12 %)

  • Pedestrian area

    5.6 km

    (10 %)

Surfaces

Paved

49.8 km

(90 %)

Unpaved

0.7 km

(1 %)

  • Asphalt

    45.5 km

    (82 %)

  • Paved (undefined)

    3.5 km

    (6 %)

  • Paving stones

    0.7 km

    (1 %)

Route highlights

Points of interest along the route

  1. Drinking water after 0.4 km

    KALARAND (fish beach) cool small beach with old concrete bricks and some sand. Popular for local kalamaja people.

  2. Highlight 2 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Point of interest after 0.7 km

    LINNAHALL / CITY HALL House was completed for 1980 Moscow Olympic Games regatta, witch took place in Tallinn. Right now house is closed and waiting for renovation, still locals like to climb to the roof, drink wine and enjoy sunsets! Just take stairs to the roof and check it out!

  3. Point of interest after 3.9 km

    Kadriorg Palace is a Petrine Baroque palace built for Catherine I of Russia by Peter the Great in Tallinn, Estonia. The Kadriorg Art Museum introduces, preserves and collects early foreign art – primarily western European and Russian paintings, graphic arts, sculpture and applied arts.

  4. Highlight 4 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Point of interest after 4.1 km

    President palace Here is Estonian president office. You can make pictures with the guards but don't walk up from the stairs! Also its easy to spot our president there!

  5. Highlight 5 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Point of interest after 4.3 km

    Estonian art museum KUMU Kumu is the headquarters of the Art Museum of Estonia, as well as the largest and most impressive exhibition venue in Estonia. In 2008 Kumu received the European Museum of the Year Award.

  6. Photo after 4.9 km

    Japanese garden The Japanese garden in Kadriorg park was opened on 31 July 2011. Masao Sone, designer of the garden, comes from Kyoto and learned landscaping in Tokyo as well as from his father who is a gardener. The north-east pond of Kadriorg and its buried limestone slope, boulders, large trees, pond and waterfall were a brilliant source of inspiration. A garden is like any living organism – it develops and changes in time and you will always find a reason to come back here!

  7. Highlight 7 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Point of interest after 5.9 km

    Estonian song festival ground Here is after every 5 years big song festival, an old tradition from 19 century. Also in 1988 song festival was really important to estonians, because there were about 300 000 people who all wanted one thing, freedom! So this place is very important to locals.

  8. Photo after 7.7 km

    MAARJAMÄE meorial During the 60s and 70s a drandiose, sprawling World War II memorial was created in virtually every soviet city. The rest of the complex, with its avenues cut into the grassy hillside, amphitheater, and concrete iron figures, was created in 1975 as a memorial to the Soviet soldiers killed in the 1941. The site was orifinally a cemetary for German war casualities, and a memorial to them.

  9. Point of interest after 8.8 km

    Very nice and quiet living area. You can spot here estonian arcidecture from different decades.

  10. Drinking water after 10.4 km

    PIRITA beach Pirita is one of the most popular beaches in Tallinn.

  11. Highlight 11 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Point of interest after 10.9 km

    ST Bridget's Cloister The mysterious, triangular shape towering above the trees next to Pirita river belongs to the ruins of St Bridget's convent. Founded in 1407 as part of a Swedish religious order, St Bridgets was the largest convent in the Livonian territories.

  12. Highlight 12 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Point of interest after 14.3 km

    BOTANIC garden Foreign rarities grow next to the local plants which you will surely recognise. Thousands of plant species are a delight for the eyes of both nature enthusiasts and regular visitors as they will slowly but surely discover them.

  13. Photo after 14.9 km

    TV-Tower The Tallinn TV Tower is a free-standing structure with an observation deck, built to provide better telecommunication services for the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics regatta event. Just before midnight, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Estonia reaches a decision to declare Estonia no longer a part of the USSR and once more an independent nation. Early in the morning of 21 August, Soviet assault troops attempted to seize the TV Tower. People from all over Estonia came out to defend the tower. A handful of armed Estonian defenders barricaded themselves into the rooms at the top.

  14. Highlight 14 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Point of interest after 21.7 km

    The Devil's cave there is a small but significant cave on the backside of Viimsi. It is a manmade cave that is carved into the side of the cliff in Viimis. It was used for defense purposes in the Great Northen War and was problaby carved in the beginning of 1700s. It used to be around 50 meters deep, but its little bit collapsed.

  15. Highlight 15 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Photo after 31.3 km

    Rohuneeme drift rock It's the fift biggest drift rock in Estonia. Surrounded by beautiful estonian forest and single tracks, go and explore this area! Later its easy to go back on the main road and ride back to city centre.

  16. Drinking water after 31.3 km

    Small private beach, you can ride there from drift rock through single tracks.

  17. Highlight 17 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Point of interest after 35.7 km

    Viimsi open-air museum A complex of seaside-farmhouses over 150 years old is located in the picturesque coastal village of Pringi. Here you can get a glimpse of the everyday lives of villagers, of their work on both the land and sea, of their entertainment and village parties, their market days and holiday traditions.

  18. Highlight 18 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Point of interest after 39.1 km

    Viimsi manor complex Viimsi Manor was founded in 1471, when Pirita Convent purchased the village from the Livonian Order and founded a manor there. In 1569, the manor became the property of the Swedish state. Right now there is a hotel and Estonian War museum.

  19. Highlight 19 along the Bikemap route "Viimsi day tour"

    Point of interest after 43.1 km

    Pirita Olimpic complex In 1980 Moscow hosted Summer Olympic Games. Tallinn and Pirita was to host the yachting events. Soviet authorities built the entire coastal Pirita hihway, the TV tower, an a extensive beach house and the Olympic Yachting Centre for the occasion. Now this house is Pirita TOP SPA hotel.

  20. Photo after 54.4 km

    RUSSALKA Russalka is a memorial monument about the sinking of the russalka warship called Russalka (mermaid). The monument depicts an angel holding an Orthodox cross towards the assumed direction of the shipwreck. The wreck of Russalka herself remained lost for 110 years until July 2003, when she was rediscovered in the gulf of Finland, 25 kilometers south of Helsinki.

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