Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

The Dutch windmill in Puhja was built in 1893 by a man called Jaan Koni. This type of wooden windmills were wide spread in Southern Estonia. Unfortunately it has lost its wings. It was as late as in the 1930s that there were about thousand windmills wor...

Muhu stronghold was a scenery for one of the last battles in 1227 before Estonians were conquered by the Livonian Order. The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia speaks about 20 000 men beleaguering the castle for five days, Older Rhime Chronicle of Livonia sp...

In the northern part of Pahkla village and in the bordering spruce stand there are numerous large stones. The largest one of them has been named the king of Estonian stones by locals, known as Pahkla Suurkivi (Big Stone) elsewhere. Pahkla Suurkivi is a ...

The history of watermills in Estonia goes back further than that of windmills. Peedu watermill by the river Elva worked already in the 17th century having a neighboring Nuti mill on the opposite bank. The current mill originates from the 19th century wh...