The estate owner of the manor, Otto Magnus von Grünewaldt was one of the firsts in
Estonia to put corvee behind and hired the peasants instead. It was in 1825. The manor
is established in 1757 but the village around was first mentioned already during the
Middle Ages, in 1564.
Location: Vetepere küla, Albu vald, Järvamaa, 73416
The Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878 – 1940) Museum was established in the writer’s birthplace in 1958. A restored traditional farmhouse, barn, cottagers’ house, fences were added at the same location in 1978, along with hiking trails in the surrounding bog...
Kakerdaja bog is one of the largest in Estonia and there are quite many of those – making 22.3% of Estonia’s total area. What makes this 1 000 hectares large wet land special is that it locates on two levels. In spring and autumn the pools in ...
When you enter the Tower you come upon a time path, you need to make a little effort to remove a mighty rune stone from the cave mouth, behind which is the prehistoric world and the World Tree. Beneath the mighty tree is a sacred grove by which people c...