Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Having been erected in the 13th century by the Livonian Order rebelling Estonians tore it down during the St. George's Night Uprising. A new castle was built and called Soneburg meaning the Castle of Punishment. The Castle of Punishment was blown up by ...

A legend says a girl is bricked in to the castle. it was a must that the enemy didn’t know her name or the protecting power will fade. But the enemy forced an old woman to tell it – it was Anne and the castle was destroyed. Swedes blew the 14th ce...

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...