Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

An urban legend says the stones meant for Tartu railway station were "put aside" and Veski villa was built of them instead. The villa does resemble to a railway station and the station is built of pulp… The first railway in Estonia was opened ...

The 1784 built Stone Bridge has a command on it: River, hold your flow here because so says Catherine the Great thanks to whom this bridge was built. Allegedly the young unsuccessful artist Adolf Hitler draw the bridge too before it was destroyed in the...

It is probable that the building of the Tartu town wall started in the 13th century. It was used until the Great Nordic War in the 18th century after which its main purpose was to provide the town with building material. Luckily the wall is still observ...

The opening ceremony of the main building took place in 1809. One of the most interesting places in the university is the lock-up in the attic: if a student was sent there he most likely marked his spending time there with a drawing, verse or monogram o...