{"id":578,"date":"2021-01-19T00:57:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T21:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valgussosistab.barn.ee\/en\/?page_id=578"},"modified":"2021-05-27T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T10:53:19","slug":"following-the-nuns-to-the-coastal-gate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/what-to-see-in-tallinn\/following-the-nuns-to-the-coastal-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Following the nuns to the Coastal Gate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Stories of high ranked nuns and the convent. The courtyard at the start of the route has been called the nuns and convent yard. It has also been called the school or Kodulinn (Hometown) yard. The first ever printing press in the city, was opened here during the Swedish period, the first book of Estonian grammar was printed here and also the Holy Bible. The first structure of the Old Town, according to folklore, is located here at the place of the current orthodox church \u2013 the Holy Ventsel Chapel. City folk traded many stories about the nuns of noble heritage of the Cistercian convent, from a suspicious murder to even more suspicious night time festivities. A noble maid, a nun, also once fled from here, at the time of Reformation, in 1525 to marry a simple man. Her name was Mistress von Nywenstadt, who half-jokingly is considered the first founder of the women\u2019s movement of the city! And the city did not turn her in to the bishop for punishment.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently not much remains of the nuns\u2019 yard, besides stories, but on the other hand there are the tall graceful towers standing here in a row, more than anywhere else in the city. It is true that at the end of the walk, we reach the Coastal Gates, where the stoutest tower of the city is found \u2013 Our Fat Margaret, which is lovingly considered to be feminine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories of high ranked nuns and the convent. The courtyard at the start of the route has been called the nuns and convent yard. It has also been called the school or Kodulinn (Hometown) yard. The first ever printing press in the city, was opened here during the Swedish period, the first book of Estonian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":490,"parent":528,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-map.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-578","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":898,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/578\/revisions\/898"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaatavanalinna.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}