57.776657, 26.031143
GPS: 57° 46' 36" N, 26° 1' 52" E
Valga Town Hall built in 1866 is set on the place an old market and a watch house used
to be. The town got its rights from Polish king Stephen Báthory in 1584. Situating at the
border with Latvia it would have almost caused a war between the two countries. Since
neither of them made compromises the town was split in two.
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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