Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Memorial stone dedicated to St. Nicholas Church, a medieval town church of the 13thC, was dedicated to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of the most important professions of that day: those of seafarers, merchants and fishermen. The black cross kept in the c...

It was already in 1759, the dying year of Schiller, that frau Elisabeth Dorothea von Gersdorf had a statue erected for him. However the nine meters high statue along with the surrounding park faded after her death. Schiller was most admired in the...

Memorial stone for Jaan Räppo (1880-1950) and Anfissa Räppo lies in the Räpo village near Võru-Vastseliina road. Jaan Räppo (studied in St. Petersbourg and was a revolution activist in 1905) and his wife Anfissa ( a Ukrainian scholar of literature) tran...

The memorial in the church yard honors the ones fallen in the War of Independence and in the I World War. Having been destroyed during the Soviet time, it was restored and reopened in 1989. The church itself, one of the smallest in Estonia, is bui...