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Downtown (literally). Formerly known as just lin (also spelled lind, litn, etc.: today meaning town but, back in the day, fortress, citadel, castle too), die Unterstadt or Нижний город (under and lower, i.e. downtown). Less in the cinema, shopping and clubbing sense as the one where poor buggers were stranded outside the fortified upper part of town. The ‘Downstairs’ to the ‘Upstairs’. Particularly undesirable when the medieval equivalent of stag-weekenders descended upon the place (OK, maybe some clubbing then). One of Vanalinn’s 4 main Wards (see also Toompea). But excludes a number of streets which are ‘Wardless’. See Vanalinn.