Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Maarjamäe Palace (built in 1874 as a summer residence for the Russian Earl Anatoli Orlov-Davydov ), where the History and Revolution Museum of the Estonian SSR was opened in 1987, was amalgamated with the Estonian History Museum in 1975.

The surrounding village by the same name is first mentioned in 1241 in The Danish Census Book. It belonged to a local elder called Saxo. One of the very few Estonian noble families survived the aggressive Christianisation, Maydells, derived their nam...