Snail Tower | |
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General information | |
Coordinates | 58°22′35″N26°44′09″E / 58.376524°N 26.735916°E Coordinates: 58°22′35″N26°44′09″E / 58.376524°N 26.735916°E |
Height | 89,98 m |
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Floor count | 23 |
Snail Tower (Estonian : Tigutorn) is an apartment building in Tartu, Estonia. [1] The tower resembles a gastropod shell, hence the name "snail tower".
The tower was designed by Vilen Künnapu and Ain Padrik and was opened in 2008. The tower has 23 floors. [1]
Tallinn is the most populous, primate, and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 444,532 and administratively lies in the Harju maakond (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located 187 kilometres (116 mi) northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only 80 kilometres (50 mi) south of Helsinki, Finland, 320 kilometres (200 mi) west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, 300 kilometres (190 mi) north of Riga, Latvia, and 380 kilometres (240 mi) east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval.
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