A volunteer flower planting action took place in Tallinn cruise area

Saturday, May 11, 2019 - 09:36 by tallinn

Port of Tallinn kept up the tradition and took part in the annual nation-wide community activities day "Let's do it!" by planting flowers to Tallinn’s cruise area.

According to Port of Tallinn’s Head of Marketing and Communication Sirle Arro, the aim of this year’s activity was to make the cruise area in Tallinn nicer for cruise tourists. „This year we together with colleagues from Port of Tallinn and volunteers from the NATO Force Integration Unit in Estonia built flower beds and planted flowers at the cruise area to give a green and lush welcome to cruise tourists arriving to Estonia. Tallinn is one of the greenest capitals in Europe after all and we would like to keep it that way.”

„Planting flowers is a small good deed that everyone of us can easily do and it doesn’t effect positively only the surrounding by making it nicer but it’s also good for the environment,“ added Arro.

The day of community activities took place on May 4 and there were around 44,000 participants (3.3% of the inhabitants) taking part in 2,051 different actions all over Estonia.
Let’s Do it! is an environmental civic action, which was established in Estonia in 2008. With its cleanup campaign it has now spread all over the world.

This cruise season Port of Tallinn expects 339 cruise ship calls with more than 600,000 cruise passengers to Tallinn. The season started on April 27 and lasts until October 19.

A volunteer flower planting action took place in Tallinn cruise area

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Estonia is situated in Northern Europe, on the coast of the Baltic Sea, neighbouring Finland, Sweden, Latvia and Russia. Estonia is known above all for its beautiful capital of Tallinn. It’s no use hiding the fact: Tallinn is Northern Europe’s oldest capital city. Tallinn’s marvellous Old Town is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The unique value of Tallinn’s Old Town lies first and foremost in the wellpreserved completeness of the medieval milieu and structure, something that has been lost in most other northern capitals. The web of winding cobblestone streets and properties, which date from the 11th to 15th centuries, are preserved nearly in its entirety. All the most important state and church buildings from the Middle Ages have been preserved in their basic original form, as well as many citizens’ and merchants’ residences, along with barns and warehouses from the medieval period.