Culture and Art Walking Tour of Tartu
Experience the city of Tartu from surprising angles to deepen the awareness of the importance of key individuals, monuments, street art, buildings, and the landscape of the city.
The tour is an opportunity for locals and visitors to gain a firsthand experience on the cultural significance of objects located in Tartu. Explore the meaning embedded within Tartu that blurs the past, present, and future.
Our walk in Tartu will create a dialogue to share interpretations and to express a deeper story that might usually go unseen for both locals and visitors. Together we will uncover narratives that are expressed through the designed characteristics found throughout the city, while also creating new interpretations on what we perceive.
The tour is in English and is a two-hour long walk that explores the hidden layers of Tartu's culture. Participants will experience a truly unique and meaningful perspective on the process of interpreting and unraveling the city's hidden meanings.
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Culture and Art Walking Tour of Tartu
What's included in Culture and Art Walking Tour of Tartu
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Monument to Juri Lotman
This stop of the tour includes the following objects: Monument of Juri Lotman at the university library, mural of "The Emperor's New Clothes" on Struve Street, and the home of Jakob von Uexküll, the founder of biosemiotics.
The second location is at Kassitoome on the slope overlooking the Cathedral and tennis courts. Here we will discuss the ecosemiotics, nature, and components related to nature-based design.
The third stop is at the Cathedral ruins and the park section of Toome Hill on the north side of the church. At this location we will talk about the monuments of: Kristian Jaak Peterson, Willem Reiman, Karl Ernst von Baer, Area Morgenstierana, Lohukivi and Musumägi).
Inclusions
- Good thoughts within "the city of good thoughts"
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting Points
- We will meet outside the front entrance for the University of Tartu Library.
End Points
- The tour will end on top of Toomemägi, near the cathedral ruins, which is less than a five minute walk from the city center.
