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Tartu, a city of 100,000 inhabitants, is located in southern Estonia, about 2,5 hours by train or buss from the Tallinn and about an hour by plane from Riga (Latvia) or Stockholm (Sweden) .
Tartu not only represents a thousand years of history: it is also very much an exciting city of youth and of bustling student life which explodes every autumn and spring in a Tartu Student Days.
10 reasons for coming to Tartu in the summer:
- Ahhaa Science Centre (New!) and Aura water park
- Hanseatic Days and Europeade Folklore Festival 20–24 July 2011
- Love Film Festival tARTuFF 8–13 August 2011
- Idyllic Town Hall Square with its outdoor cafes and street musicians
- Sightseeing tours on Emajõgi River on board the barge Jõmmu, the Viking ship Turm or M/S Pegasus
- Romantic Toomemägi (Dome Hill) with its recently renovated Tartu observatory, old dissection hall and the lookouts of the University of Tartu History Museum
- Historic Jaani cultural city block with Tartu Jaani (St John’s) Church, St. Anthony’s Guild and Courtyard, Theatre House and Toy Museum
- Scenic Botanical Garden of the University of Tartu and all the museums of Tartu that deserve to be discovered
- Fascinating summer theatrical productions and outdoor concerts
- Shopping centres offering good prices and versatile product ranges
Discover the possibilitiesof summer relaxation in Tartu and Southern Estonia here: Tartu and Southern Estonia newsletter, Summer 2011
Relay dance
From 20 August to 28 August 2011 the Estonian Folk Dance and Folk Music Society organizes a relay dance-marathon called TeateTants 2011, during which participants dance folk dances to Estonian folk music through all fifteen Estonian countries, covering a thousand kilometres of Estonian roads. Our wish is to promote Estonian folk dance and folk music and to motivate dancers, musicians and teachers to be active within different spheres of our national culture.
