The science made in Tartu Observatory has changed the understanding of the Universe. The director of the observatory F.G.W. Struve (1793--1864) led the fixing of the geodetic line now known after his name. The line had an important role in understanding...
An urban legend says the stones meant for Tartu railway station were "put aside" and Veski villa was built of them instead. The villa does resemble to a railway station and the station is built of pulp… The first railway in Estonia was opened ...
The 1784 built Stone Bridge has a command on it: River, hold your flow here because so says Catherine the Great thanks to whom this bridge was built. Allegedly the young unsuccessful artist Adolf Hitler draw the bridge too before it was destroyed in the...