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''Clean straw is the best bedding one can get in a great many places''.
The Grand Tour, Thomas Nugent, 1749.
Our tour of the Baltic cities gives you all of the sights visited by the aristocrats of yesteryear, but we promise you without the discomforts. Since their independence from the USSR in the 1990s, the three Baltic capitals have been transformed, offering wonderful restaurants and small boutique hotels.
In Tallinn your private guide will show you around the historic heart of the city - Toompea Castle, St Mary's Cathedral, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, and of course the Town Square; with its Gothic Town Hall and guild houses it is one of the best surviving examples in Europe of fifteenth and sixteenth century civic architecture.
Your private driver and guide will also take you outside of Tallinn to see the Kadriorg Palace and Park, founded by Peter the Great; today it houses a world-class art collection. In the afternoon, we take you on a torchlight tour of Tallinn's ancient Dominican monastery.
So close and yet so different; Riga is medieval, Gothic and art nouveau, all in one cosmopolitan city. Outside of the city there is the Rundale Palace, designed by Rastrelli (who also designed the Winter Palace in St Petersburg).
Vilnius has been on the world map a long time (since the fifth century B.C.), and there is a lot to see: the Gates of Dawn, the Gediminas Castle Museum, even a KGB Museum. On the second day of your visit your private guide will take you Trakai and Kaunas, perhaps the most 'Lithuanian' town of all.
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