Sangaste castle has been compared with the Windsor castle in England. There used
to be 99 rooms in this castle, hundred or more would have been already something
allowed to the emperor only. By the main entrance a peculiar acoustic effect occurs –
words whispered in one corner will clearly be heard in the opposite as well.
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)....