Our ticket to the City Museum is also giving us entry to the Dom and Dom cloister. At least that is what we read but we are not sure as the ticket seller didn’t tell us anything. We go outside and try to enter the Dom brazenly and show the tickets….lo and behold it works! We visit the Dom first, it is a bit austere but quite impressive, we especially like the groin vaulted ceiling.
The cathedral is huge, the largest in the Baltic countries, and it also has a famous pipe organ at one time the largest in the world.
Another interesting section the Blackheads pew. The Blackheads were a guild for unmarried merchants, shipowners and foreigners in Estonia and Latvia. They had their pew in the church and guild house that we already visited the previous day.
We then enter the cloister courtyard. It is quite beautiful in the same style as the dom and following the usual rectangular format of cloister courtyards.
Here we find some of the tombstones that likely were inside the church. Most are in German as that was the lingua franca in the cities during medieval times and are quite intricately designed.
And then in one section are the cannons. No idea why there are so many cannons in a church courtyard, we really doubt they are part of the church ensemble. Likely they are part of the museum but who knows?
