Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Tamme downs became world famous in the second half of the 19th century when the Devonian armor plated fish were found there, in the yellowish-brownish sandstone. The upper body of that fish was covered by armored plates and the rest was scaled or naked.

The Dutch windmill in Tamme village has served not only for grinding flour but as a landmark for the fishermen too. There is a rumour about some Swedish being buried there. It was in the 1930s that there were about thousand windmills working in Estonia.

The 13 m high Tamme-Koori Oak Tree in Tamme farm in  Vana -Võidu village bacame famous when Estonian painter Eduard Viiralt visited the farm in 1944 and perpetuated the tree on his graphic sheet "The Landscape of Viljandi".

is the thickest and oldest tree in Estonia, located in Urvaste Parish, Võru County. The height of the tree is 17 metres, circumference is 831 centimetres, measured 130 centimetres from the ground. According to researchers, the tree was planted around 13...