Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

The exact time of setting Sõru harbor is unknown. Being located to a strategically important spot boats and smaller sailing ships have been landing here for at least 600 years. In 1890 a plan was made to build a bridge for the police’s little boat...

Building of the St Catherine’s Orthodox Church in Võru began in 1793.  It is an early neo-classical church (architect Matthias Schons) with numerous icons and a beautiful iconostasis from the early 19th century.   

The church was built between the 13th and 14th centuries and it is one of the oldest medieval churches in Central Estonia with a pseudo-Gothic interior from the 19th century.   A tomb monument (1800) to General Fersen lies the choi...