Location: Kõrgessaare alevik, Kõrgessaare vald, Hiiumaa
Though it comes as a surprise for most of the people there are 36 species of orchids
in Estonia. 30 of them have been found from Kõrgessaare borough which makes
Kõrgessaare the fourth richest of them in Estonia. Right opposite to the Kõrgessaare
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Downstream from Oblu village behind virgin soils on the right bank of the Atla River is Õrde spring which is under protection. To reach the spring, a bridge has been built on the river. Before the bogs were drained, the spring was affluent, now the wate...
Three brothers and organ builders - Juhan Kriisa (27.03.1858), Jakob Kriisa (13.06.1861) and Tannil Kriisa (01.12.1866) - were born in Haanja parish in Kokemäe village in an old fashioned farm-house. The room where they came into this world was earth fl...
The church (built in 1755, rebuilt in 1870) is renowned as the ”Admiralty church” that the Russian sailors are said to have built on the wreck of a ship. The church was handed over to an Estonian congregation in the 1920s. The building, used as a gym du...
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