Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Gustav II Adolf, the famous king-general of the Thirty Years’ War that fell in the battle of Lützen signed the Foundation Decree of Academia Dorpatensis, the University of Tartu on the 30th of June 1632. The monument for him that the Soviet pow...

An Estonian culture figure of long and flamboyant name, Hugo Hermann Fürchtegott Treffner established a gymnasium and gave it half of his name. A century later it is one of the bests in Estonia. The monument stands in the spot where on...

Standing for the importance of mother tongued education Jakob Hurt (1839-1907) was in constant opposition with another national leader, the fiery Carl Robert Jakobson who found Hurt's approach too restrained. Hurt withdraw from politics and concentrated...

Having experienced hostility against Jews and difficulties to publish his work Petrograd born Lotman chose the more liberal Estonia. Despite semiotics being only half eligible sience in the Soviet Union Lotman received international recognition as one o...