58.016945, 25.880556
GPS: 58° 1' 1" N, 25° 52' 50" E
A legend says a girl is bricked in to the castle. it was a must that the enemy didn’t know
her name or the protecting power will fade. But the enemy forced an old woman to tell it
– it was Anne and the castle was destroyed. Swedes blew the 14th century built castle
up in Russian-Swedish War in 1658 while retreating and unable to keep it.
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)....
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