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Pirita

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Worth seeing in and around Pirita

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
    Tallinn TV Tower

    TV Tower in Talinn, Estonia

    2.8 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Pirita Convent

    Monastery in Tallinn; now in ruins

    300 m · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tondiraba Ice Hall

    Multi-purpose indoor arena complex in Tallinn, Estonia

    2.9 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Metsakalmistu

    Cemetery in Tallinn, Estonia

    1.8 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Russalka Memorial

    Monument in Kadriorg, Tallinn

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Maarjamäe Palace

    Manor house in Tallinn, Estonia

    2.4 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Maarjamäe memorial

    Monument in Tallinn

    2.1 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Pirita Velodrome

    Bicycle track and football stadium in Tallinn, Estonia

    700 m · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of the "Quick to Hearken" Icon of the Mother of God

    Church in Tallinn, Estonia

    2 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Charles Leroux Memorial

    Monument in Tallinn, Estonia

    1.8 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Pirita

Airports
Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 6 km · Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 95 km · Turku (TKU), 184 km
Stations
Lasnamäe Airfield, 2.6 km
  • Helsinki (Vantaa) → Pirita
    95 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · €11–15
  • Turku → Pirita
    180 km · quickest by road, 5h 16m · €26–36
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Pirita
    227 km · quickest by road, 5h 40m · €28–39
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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 Pirita

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 Pirita. 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. 02182 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

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    283 km

If you know how people move in Pirita – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Pirita

Pirita is 6 km from Tallinn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.