Tallinn

When Estonia became independent in 1920, the Danish government, in the spirit of Baltic solidarity, donated a Danish flag to Tallinn—the city where the flag was said to have been born—and it was proudly raised in the council church

“The Three-Handed Mother of God is the patron of the innocent abused, and who is more innocently abused today, if not nature?”, says Anatoli, explaining the iconography of the painted saints

The 11th-century Hamburg chronicler Adam of Bremen, who sailed the Baltic Sea on ships of Viking princes, mentions in his Gesta that the pagan people of the Aesti kept snakes as protectors in their homes, and offered sacrifices – sometimes human sacrifices – to the winged snakes, for the safety and wealth of the tribe

A 14th-c. Last Judgment fresco on the town hall wall warns the merchants that one day they will be held accountable for everything. For the two piglets roasted on the skewers of the eating-house set up right under the fresco, this moment is already the present; for the chef, who is not ashamed to ask fifteen euros for a portion, only the future threatens