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Kadriorg Park and the Kumu Museum
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Kadriorg Park
—This expansive seaside park, home to a summer royal residence and
the Kumu Art Museum, is just a five-minute tram ride or a 25-minute walk from Hotel
Viru. After Russia took over Tallinn in 1710, Peter the Great built the cute, pint-sized Kad-
riorg Palace for Tsarina Catherine (the palace's name means “Catherine's Valley”). Stately,
peaceful, and crisscrossed by leafy paths, the park has a rose garden, duck-filled pond,
playground and benches, and old tsarist guardhouses harkening back to the days of Russi-
an rule. It's a delightful place for a stroll or a picnic. If it's rainy, duck into one of the cafés
in the park's art museums (described below).
