In Estonian, the word ‘soomaa’ literally means ‘swamp land’ or ‘land of mires.’ Soomaa
National Park, founded in 1993, is an extensive wilderness area in south-western Estonia,
containing large peat-bogs and thick forests interwoven by numerous rivers and the
floodplains that border them.
Soomaa is best known for having five unique seasons with the the fifth season being the high-
water season. The waters here are extraordinary. A number of local rivers from surrounding
uplands, meet in a relatively small area between the bogs and swamp forests. Once or twice a
year, when snows melt across the country, they fill with melt-water and break their banks.
The largest four bogs situated within Soomaa include Kuresoo (10843 ha), Valgeraba (3379
ha), Ordi (7135 ha) and Kikerpera (8775 ha). The bogs are separated from each other by
the Pärnu, Halliste, Navesti, Raudna, Lemmjõgi, and Kõpu rivers. Alongside these rivers,
floodplain meadows and floodplain forests occur.
The manor was first mentioned in 1582. From the 1780s, the manor belonged to the von Stackelbergs. The main building erected at the end of the 18th century and was changed in the 19th and also 20th century. After expropriation, the manor has housed a sc...
Location: Sinialliku küla, Pärsti vald, Viljandimaa, 71105
The Sinialliku (Blue Springs) valley, which is a part of the ancient Viljandi valley, lies 3 km to the south-west from Viljandi. On the bottom of the valley there is the Sinialliku lake. The two springs - Suur Siniallikas (The Great Blue Spring) and Väi...
The monument is located on a green area between Tartu and Lossi streets in Viljandi. Carl Robert Jakobson was one the most important public figures during the Estonian Period of Awakening and founder of Sakala, the newspaper of Viljandi County. The stat...
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