Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Pältre fir grows at the Pältre-Viitka roadside, 1,5 km to Vastseliina from Pältre village. The tree has a shape of a chandelier and it is therefore called a chandelier-fir. Pältre fir is the most spectacular of its kind in Estonia with its 11 treetops. ...

It was meant to become the last resting place for von Ungern-Sternbergs but the groundwater turned out being too high. Having no rectory or cemetery it was just a simple church nicely by the road. In the summer of 1939 the Soviet army found a new ...

First mentioned in 1582 the manor has belonged to number of noble families, von Fersens’, the family which count Hans Axel von Fersen, the alleged lover of Marie Antoinette, originates from being one of them. The current wooden main building is fr...