58.363396, 25.594061
GPS: 58° 21' 48" N, 25° 35' 39" E
The Martin Klein Bronze Statue (sculptor Mati Karmin) was unveiled in front of the Viljandi Sports Centre in 2002. Martin Klein who won the silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games is the first Estonian to win an olympic medal and probably the first Estonian to make it in the Guinness Book of records. He has gone down in the history of wrestling with the longest match: Klein wrestled with Alfred Asikainen from Finland for 11 hours and 40 minutes.
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...