The Most Important Buildings in Lai Street in Tallinn
(first mentioned 1359). Lai Street is very wide considering that it was laid out in the Middle
Ages. This is because it sprang up on both sides of former city wall.
Lai is quite a peaceful street with few shops. However, it has three museums and two theatres.
The main entrance into St Olaf´s Church also faces the street. Several Lai Street houses have
kept their Gothic appearance and even interiors, although we can also notice moderate Nordic
Baroque, Neoclassicicm, Historicism and even Art Nouveau.
The origin of the name "Lai"
Lai Street belongs among the oldest streets of Tallinn. Despite its length and width its share in
the city's inner traffic is fairly modest. The extraordinary width of the street is likely due to
the fact that the town wall used to be there and the street then sprang up on both sides of the
city wall. But that city wall was eliminated in the construction of a new wall to the west. The
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