One of the most unusual places in Old Tallinn - Catherine's Passage - is named after the Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria, founded on this site as early as the 12th century by the Dominicans. This huge church by the standards of the time, more than 60 meters long, unfortunately perished in a fire, and today we can judge its former grandeur only by the ruins of the ancient walls decorating the northern part of the street.
For a long time, the church ruins were used as warehouses and workshops, and the passage itself was constantly cluttered with all sorts of junk. Only in the 1990s was this little street cleared, restored, and turned into a прекрасный уголок, where you can purchase unique handmade souvenirs.
Catherine's Passage is famous for the fact that here you will find not the usual tourist rows of magnets and mugs with Tallinn symbols, but shops inhabited by a genuine medieval craft guild! All the goods created in these workshops are produced in exact accordance with old technologies. And if you want to bring back from Estonia a truly unique souvenir, a one-of-a-kind item, then you could not imagine a better place to buy it!
