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Despite the fact that The Tall Ships Races 2021 will be postponed to 2024, the city will be holding a grandiose maritime festival and several other traditional summer events.

The world's largest training regatta ‘The Tall Ships Races’ will not take place this year due to COVID-19 restrictions and the ongoing spread of the pandemic. The regatta will return to the Baltic Sea in 2024. Instead, Tallinn will be holding an impressive maritime festival in the five ports of Tallinn this summer, taking place in 16-18 July.

Tomorrow, April 15, the annual Urban Maintenance Month will be kicked off in Tallinn, which will be held for the 30th time. The motto of this year's campaign is "Responsibility for the Future" and the aim is to encourage people to think along on the issues of the circular economy and environmental education. During the Urban Maintenance Month, recycling of used items is made easy and hazardous waste can be disposed of free of charge.

This Sunday, Tallinn Day, at 12.30pm, a collection of vintage buses will parade from Vabaduse väljak (Freedom Square) to Kadriorg Park. Townspeople can take a ride on ten old-timer buses that no longer run on the Estonian bus routes today.

Tallinn has been confirmed as a candidate for the title of European Capital of Sport 2025; the winner will be announced in November this year.

The Tallinn Urban Environment and Public Works Department has launched an international public procurement procedure for the design and construction of a two-kilometre tramway linking the Tallinn’s Old City Harbour, or Vanasadam, with the planned Rail Baltic Ülemiste passenger terminal.

Tallinn is to refresh the red road markings of city centre cycle paths only in the most dangerous road sections, while physical separations between cycle paths and the road will be installed to make cycling safer.

The architectural competition for the extension of Tallinna Reaalkool – Tallinn Secondary School of Science – has been won by an Estonian architecture office Molumba with the design R². Construction is scheduled to start in 2024.

Tallinn is seeking feedback on plans to improve the user-friendliness and safety of cycle lanes at a number of key public transport stops and intersections in and near the city centre.

The parade of the Defence Forces on the occasion of the anniversary of the Republic of Estonia and the rehearsal of the parade on Vabaduse Square will cause changes to public transport routes in Tallinn city centre on Wednesday 23 February from 19:00 and Thursday 24 February from 8-16:30.