Travel Reference
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To Fat Margaret Tower and Start of Walk:
From the ferry terminals,
hike toward the tall tapering spire, go through a small park, and enter the Old
Town through the archway bythe squat Fat Margaret Tower (Paks Margareeta).
Just outside the tower on a bluff overlooking the harbor is a broken black arch,
a memorial to 852 people who perished in September of 1994 when the
Estonia
passenger-and-car ferrysankinstormy conditions duringits Tallinn-Stockholm
run. The ship's bow visor came off, and water flooded into the car deck, throw-
ing the boat off-balance. Only 137 people survived. The crew's maneuvering of
