Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Salme river here marks the place of the strait that phased out about 2000 years ago. The peninsula ends with the Sõrve neck and following islets in Irben Strait. The peninsula was first mentioned in 1234 by the name Sworve. The history of the light hous...

Built in the years 1776-1780, St Anne’s Lutheran Church in Anna is a late Baroque church with a mirror ceiling and a pseudo-Gothic interior. The altarpiece ”Save me, Lord” by Rudolf Julius von zur Mühlen dates from 1892. A grave stone from an earlier ...

  A church close to the chapel of Vastseliina fortress – a destination for many medieval pilgrims. An earlier wooden church (1772) has been replaced by a Baroque church with a colourful neo-Historical extension (architect R. Pohlmann, 1901). ...