Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

The Christian invaders did not go inventing bicycle but took what seemed working already – the fort of Estonians’. According to the archeological finds the place was habited already 2000 years ago. Having changed masters the Livonian Order itself ...

Built in 1340 the Jesuits turned it to their Southern Estonian head-quarters in the Middle Ages. When destroyed in 1558 in the next clash between the Livonian Order and the Russians its collapsed walls provided stones for building the new castle, the en...

First mentioned in 1557 the spirits from the manor's distillery was exported to Riga and then to the Imperial Russia. The manor has belonged to number of noble families, von Fersens', the family which count Hans Axel von Fersen, the alleged lover of Mar...