Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Laulupeo.

View along Laulupeo, Tallinn, from in the J. Poska direction.

Limestone house, now government building set back from the road in Laulupeo, Tallinn.

Leafy sidewalk in Laulupeo, Tallinn

#Laulupeo (Laulupidu)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Torupilli
Song festival (one of the great events in the #Estonian calendar). Try and imagine over 100,000 people all singing the same songs, mostly from memory, for hours on end. In comparison, a recent survey found that
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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#Pidu (0)
Festival, feast, banquet, public celebration. Odd, the genitive of #pidu is #peo, and #Laulupeo (1923) corrected itself two years after initially naming itself #Laulupidu, and this was created in 1927...
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Hiiu
#Onomastics #Onomastika
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mesipuu poole (paraphrasing: the bee flies back to the hive, a regular pollenizer at the #EstonianSongFestival, #Laulupeo). Died after being thrown from a train in mid-winter for not having a ticket. They took it so much more seriously in those days
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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