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Kadriorg

Kadriorg is a subdistrict in the district of Kesklinn ("Midtown"), Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

Kadriorg
Kadriorg · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kadriorg is a subdistrict in the district of Kesklinn ("Midtown"), Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 4,561. The subdistrict name derives from the Catherinethal, a Baroque palace of Catherine I of Russia. It is one of the wealthiest neighbourhoods in Estonia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kadriorg

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Toompea Castle

    Toompea castle is a medieval castle on Toompea hill in the central part of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. In modern times, it houses the Parliament of Estonia.

    3.1 km · castle in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    A. Le Coq Arena

    The Lilleküla Stadium, known as A. Le Coq Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Tallinn, Estonia. It is the home ground of football clubs Flora and Levadia, and the Estonia national football team.

    3.9 km · football stadium in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

    The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of Tallinn is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in central Tallinn, Estonia. It was built in 1894–1900, when the country was part of the former Russian Empire.

    3 km · Orthodox church in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Nicholas' Church

    St. Nicholas Church is a medieval church building in Tallinn, Estonia.

    2.8 km · church in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Olaf's Church

    Church in Tallinn, Estonia

    2.5 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Toompea

    Toompea is a hill in the central part of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia. The hill has an area of 7 hectares and is about 20–30 metres higher than the surrounding areas.

    2.9 km · hill in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Tallinn Old Town

    Tallinn Old Town is the oldest part of Tallinn, Estonia. Old Town of Tallinn has managed to wholly preserve its structure of medieval and Hanseatic origin.

    2.6 km · UNESCO World Heritage site · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St. Mary's Cathedral

    St. Mary's Cathedral is a Lutheran cathedral church located on the Toompea hill in the medieval central part of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia.

    3 km · church building in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Kadriorg Palace

    Kadriorg Palace is an 18th-century Petrine Baroque palace in Kadriorg, Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Both the Estonian and the German names for the palace mean "Catherine's valley".

    100 m · palace in Tallinn, Estonia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Pikk Hermann

    Pikk Hermann is a tower of the Toompea Castle, on Toompea hill in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The first part of the tower was built in 1360–1370.

    3.1 km · tower in Tallinn · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Kadriorg

Airports
Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 4 km · Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 98 km · Turku (TKU), 185 km
Stations
Tallinn Airport, 2.5 km · Tallinn Baltic Station, 3.1 km · Old City Harbour, 1.6 km · Seaplane Harbour, 3.6 km
  • Helsinki (Vantaa) → Kadriorg
    99 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · €11–15
    GuideToday
  • Turku → Kadriorg
    180 km · quickest by road, 5h 9m · €25–35
    GuideToday
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Kadriorg
    229 km · quickest by road, 5h 33m · €27–38
    GuideToday
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kadriorg

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kadriorg. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAll ferries dock at Reisisadam port, to the north of the centre.
  • Get inThe most common ferry route is from Helsinki, Finland to Tallinn Port, which has upwards of 20 departures daily.
  • Get inDepending on the ferry, journey time is 1½–3½ hours.
  • Get inAll ferries also carry cars, from €25 one way.
  • Get inBikes on car ferries must go through vehicle check-in, which closes earlier than passenger check-in, so plan for extra time.

From Wikivoyage: Tallinn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    180 km
  2. 02
    Nagu / Nauvo and the Turku archipelago inner ringFI

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    182 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    218 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    242 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    282 km

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Around it

Next door to Kadriorg

Kadriorg is 2 km from Tallinn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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