Highlights:

📍 Kuressaare with Kuressaare Episcopal Castle 📸 - c.1380s built by the Teutonic Order & Saaremaa Museum,

        one of the oldest and largest in Estonia

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📍 Spa's like Grand Rose or Georg Ots with historic healing Mud Baths (c.1824)

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📍 Notable Churches🔍 - 13c Karja (St. Catherine’s); famous for rich medieval stone carvings & ceiling paintings,

       Valjala (St. Martin’s); oldest stone church in Estonia (13c), onion domed Püha Nikolai Kirik (St. Nicholas

       Orthodox Church) c 1790, Gothic Kaarma (Saints Peter & Paul), Pöide; massive, fortress-like medieval church

       white wooden Jämaja by the sea🔍 and Reomäe Monastery - active Orthodox convent/monastery

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📍 9 Meteorite Craters near Kaali, including one of the youngest large meteorite crater fields on Earth, ~3.5–7.6K

        years ago and likely a sacred/cult site for ancient peoples

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📍 Apples Apples Everywhere 📸 - every yard has an apple 🍏 tree and they all put crates by the street to share 

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📍 Baltic🔍 Beaches, Kiipsaare Lighthouse & Wooden Windmills​​

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📍 Sweet Treats  & ☕ Cuppa's 🔍-   KURE Coffee   |   Vanalinna Kohvik (cáfe)  |  Good Mood Food Cafe Resto             Salme Sai Bakery & Café  |   Saaremaa Veski (in a historic windmill)  &  Ohessaare Windmill Café 

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LOCAL FESTIVAL 🎉 - Saaremaa Opera Festival & the Peony 🌸  Festival