The Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn
unique form of economic and social community to a remarkable degree.
Criterion (ii): The Historic Centre of Tallinn, among the most remote and powerful outposts
of the colonizing activities of the Hanseatic League in the north-eastern part of Europe in the
13th-16th centuries, provided a crucible within which an international secular-ecclesiastical
culture resulting from the interchange of Cistercians, Dominicans, the Teutonic Order and
the traditions of the Hanseatic League, formed and was itself exported throughout northern
Europe.
Criterion (iv): The town plan and the buildings within it constitute a remarkable reflection of
the coexistence of the seat of feudal overlords and a Hanseatic trading centre within the
shelter of a common system of walls and fortifications.
Integrity
The boundaries of the inscribed World Heritage property and its buffer zone were modified in
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