Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

First mentioned in 1341 its Swedish community had lived according to the 17th century manners when they left on August 4 in 1944. The 1644 built church is one of the oldest wooden buildings in Estonia. Small island but one of the deepest boreholes in Es...

Kärkna monastery was established in the first quarter of the 13th century by the first bishop of Tartu, Herman I who, having lost his sight, spent his old age there. He, and allegedly a Danish princess as well, is buried there. An army from Pskov destro...

To isolate the Baltic Sea provinces of German background from Prussia’s influence Russian was made the language of bureaucracy and education. Thanks for that the state gave the schools operating by the Orthodox churches quite a lot money which ...