Palmse Manor

From the 13th century to 1510, the area of the former estate was owned by the St. Michael's Convent in Tallinn. After that it changed hands several times and in 1522 it came into the hands of the von Metztacken family. In 1677 the estate came to the German-Baltic von der Pahlen family through marriage. At the end of the 17th century, the construction of a representative mansion began, which received its present form in the 19th century. A park was laid out around the manor house, which was initially designed according to the French model. The park was later enlarged to 18 hectares and given the character of an English landscape park. The estate was expropriated after the end of the First World War and after the establishment of the independent state of Estonia in the course of the dissolution of the estates in 1919. Until the Second World War, the manor housed a convalescent home of the Estonian Schutzbund Kaitseliit. During the period of the first independence and later after the incorporation as the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic into the Soviet Union, the former manor buildings and lands were used for different purposes, whereby the preservation of the building structure played only a minor role or not at all (Wikipedia).

Manor house from the 18th century. There is a very beautiful park and a labyrinth here.

Great manor house in Lahemaa National Park, definitely worth a visit.