Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

It has lost all its bark over the last thousand years for this is how old people believe it is. Pilgrims arrived to Kuremäe all have thought the oak’s bark has a healing virtue and they all have wanted a piece of it. It is a habit for Orthodox pil...

Developing the area around the castle into a park started in the second half of the 19th century when curative seamud was discovered in Kuressaare and the town rose among the beloved resorts of Estonia, the western end of the czarist Russia. The m...

Having belonged to a secret adviser from St. Petersburg, to Ivan Mierzeyewski, it was then sold to the Estonian Society for a record shattering 12 000 rubles. Bying an „expencive German“ house in the center of the town rose Estonians’ national sel...

The Medieval convent of the castle is the only one in the Baltics that have survived without any significant re-constructions being done to it which, from the architectual aspect, gives it an international importance. Having been erected in the 13...