View from the Nõelasilm archway towards Harju, Tallinn.

View towards the Nõelasilm archway and Niguliste church.

#acus means needle or, by extension, eye of the needle, likely a #calque on #Bremen’s oldest gate, #DieNatel (MLG de Natlen), aka #Bischofsnadel (Bishop’s Needle) or #Bischofstor (Bishop’s Gate), built sometime in the early 1200s. Being its first city gate and probably relatively small, it
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