Peetri stone rest stop

Stone of cultural heritage. This stone is said to have been scraped by the wheel of Russian emperor Peter the Greats coach after he visited Ungru in 1715.

The Peetri stone stands by the Ungru road near Paralepa, just outside Haapsalu. It is a cultural heritage object with a curious story: the marks on its surface are said to have been scraped by the wheel of Peter the Great's coach when the Russian tsar passed this way on a visit to Ungru in 1715, a few years after his armies had taken Estonia from Sweden in the Great Northern War. Today a wooden bench stands beside the stone, and it is the starting point of a forestry study trail through the surrounding woods, so it makes a pleasant short stop on the way to or from Haapsalu.