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 ...