The Otepää Winter Sports Museum was opened in the Tehvandi Stadium complex on 09.02.2011 as a branch of the Estonian Sports Museum.
The crown jewels of its exhibitions are the medals and awards won by Estonian winter sports athletes in the Olympics and other major competitions, and winter sports equipment and clothing.
You can test yourself by skiing up the famed Tehvandi rise and compare your time to the best times achieved by top athletes in competition. You can also see how snow is made and learn the secrets of ski waxing. You can also watch entertaining videos of Estonian winter sports from yesterday and today.
Location: Mäe tn 23, Otepää vallasisene linn, Valgamaa
The body of the first apotheckary in Otepää, a man called Jürvelson, was found on this
hill in 1882. The apotheckary had been poisoned. The trail itself
is four kilometers long running through the forest and by the Margus’ lake. The trail is passa...
Location: Barclay de Tolly mausoleumi park, Jõgeveste küla, Helme vald, Valgamaa
The Arch of Triumph in Valga County? No – it is the classicist mausoleum (architect Apollon Shtshedrin) that houses the sarcophaguses in which lie the embalmed bodies of Prince Michael Andrea Barclay de Tolly (1761-1818) and his wife (who died in 1828)....