Castles & Palaces
Narva Castle on the banks of the Narva River at twilight

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Castles in Estonia

Estonia's medieval heritage combines the best-preserved Gothic old town in northern Europe — Tallinn, a UNESCO World Heritage Site — with a coastline of Teutonic Order castles and the dramatic frontier fortress of Narva, where Hermann Castle faces the Russian Ivangorod Fortress across 150 metres of river. Tallinn's Toompea Castle has been the seat of power in Estonia for 700 years.

Toompea Castle and Tall Hermann tower rising above Tallinn's red-roofed medieval lower town, Estonia
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estonia · Harju County / Tallinn

Toompea Castle

The castle that built Estonia — a medieval Danish fortress on Tallinn's limestone hill, seat of power for 800 years

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Palmse Manor in Lahemaa National Park, Estonia — the fully restored 18th-century Baroque manor of the von der Pahlen family, with formal garden and the national park visitor centre, on the site of a 13th-century Cistercian convent

estonia · Lahemaa National Park, Haljala Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia

Palmse Manor

A Cistercian convent site turned 18th-century Baltic German manor — the restored jewel of Lahemaa National Park and the visitor centre for Estonia's first national park

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Narva Castle Hermann Tower facing the Russian Ivangorod Fortress across the Narva River border

estonia · Ida-Virumaa

Narva Castle

The most dramatic border castle in Europe — facing the Russian fortress of Ivangorod across a river that divides NATO from Russia

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Kuressaare Castle 14th-century bishop's fortress reflected in the moat on Saaremaa Island, Estonia

estonia · Saaremaa — Kuressaare, Saaremaa Island, western Estonia; the island's main town and administrative centre

Kuressaare Castle

The best-preserved medieval castle in the Baltic — a largely intact 14th-century bishop's fortress on an island that resisted crusader conquest longer than anywhere else in the eastern Baltic

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Sagadi Manor in Lahemaa National Park, Estonia — the 1753 Baroque manor house of the von Fock family, with formal garden and forest surroundings, housing the Manor Museum and the Forest Museum of Estonia

estonia · Lahemaa National Park, Haljala Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia

Sagadi Manor

A 1753 Baroque manor house in Lahemaa National Park — the von Fock family estate first documented in 1469, now housing Estonia's Forest Museum in the woods above the Baltic coast

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Viljandi Castle ruins in the Lossipark, southern Estonia — the Livonian Order's third-largest fortress, now a scenic ruin park above Lake Viljandi with the suspension bridge over the old moat

estonia · Viljandi County, Southern Estonia

Viljandi Castle Ruins

The Livonian Order's third largest fortress, now a lakeside ruin park with a suspension bridge over the old moat — and the summer home of one of the world's largest folk music festivals, held among the castle walls each July

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