Ida-Viru County: stories, campsites, saunas and trails
Things to see and do in Ida-Viru County: 198 stories tied to real places – legends, history and lost places – and 48 places to camp, sleep, walk and warm up in the forests.
Stories from Ida-Viru County
Ghost story 13 all over Estonia →
- The gift-giving ghost of Saka manor
- The cursed house of Joala Street, Narva
- The walled-up girl of Illuka manor
- The guardian of the Vasavere burial ground
- The ghost guardians of Kalevipoeg's grave at Kivinõmme
- The screaming house spirit of Püssi
- The phantom dogs and horsemen of Kuremäe
- The little man in the top hat at Pähklimäe
- The woman in pink by the Maidla barn
- The treasure guard in a general's uniform
- The lord who waited seven years in the Repniku forest
- Nine rowan sticks against a dead father-in-law, Kannuka
- The bad place on the hay-meadow road at Võrnu Sala
Legend 14 all over Estonia →
- The holy spring of Pühtitsa
- Kalevipoeg digs Kuremägi and the Konsu lakes
- Kalevipoeg's unfinished town of Tudulinna
- The witch in Narva's Hermann tower
- The gold sword that would not let its finder sleep
- Hungerburg, the hunger town of Narva-Jõesuu
- Peeterristi, Peter's cross
- Puhatu, the resting place
- Kalmeistri, where the owls screamed
- The wandering village of Aa
- The peace barrel of Aruvälja
- Tarumaa, the village of black earth
- Hell's Hole hill and the devils' spring of Sinimäed
- The pirates' inn at Sillamäe
Mystery or the unexplained 11 all over Estonia →
- Silver rings hidden at Saka
- A waterspout over Lake Peipus
- A five-metre wall of ice at Kauksi
- A Gotland woman's brooch at Varja
- Ice-jam fields on the Narva at Kuningaküla
- The gold spring of Ohakvere
- The coffin-shaped treasure stone of Jabara
- An empty boat washes up near Päite
- The ancient ship in Lehviva bog
- Something metal on the sea bed off Ontika
- The nun from France who was taken for Plevitskaya
True crime 5 all over Estonia →
Shipwreck or sea mystery 5 all over Estonia →
Battle or uprising 15 all over Estonia →
- Fall of Narva
- Swedish storming of Narva
- Battle of Narva
- Storming of Narva
- Red Army attack on Narva
- Utria landing
- Battles of Krivasoo
- Destruction of Narva
- Battle of the Blue Hills (Sinimäed)
- Russian siege of Narva
- Kreenholm strike
- Mereküla landing
- Grapeshot on Joala field
- Holding the Auvere bridgehead
- The burning houses of Varja
Fire, flood or disaster 21 all over Estonia →
- Great fire of Narva
- Vaivara concentration camp
- The secret 'paint factory' and its radioactive pond
- The artificial mountain that burned inside
- A salmon river turned black
- Kiviõli's ski slope of oil-shale waste
- Two miners found dead in the Estonia mine
- A bear with a sheep under its arm at Kauksi
- The bear that shamed the barons near Sonda
- Smallpox in the Kreenholm mill town
- The great fire of Narva, April 1919
- The bear hunt at Sonda
- A boat goes over the Kreenholm falls
- Lake Peipus floods Vasknarva
- Peipus fishermen carried off on the ice to the Soviet shore
- A steamer runs down a motor boat on the Narva river
- The night the sea rose at Purtse and Eisma
- A Stone Age harpoon in the Tõrvala diatomite pit
- Explosion at the Kohtla shale-oil works
- Lightning burns the Kuremäe convent cowshed
- Fourteen hours adrift on Lake Peipus
Famous life 5 all over Estonia →
First or record 1 all over Estonia →
Film or book location 4 all over Estonia →
Lost building or monument 7 all over Estonia →
Remembered by people who were there 9 all over Estonia →
- Narva people remember the evacuation and bombing of their town in 1944
- Ruuben Lambur remembers Peressaare village and the forest brothers
- Otto Milder recalls 1940 and 1941 at the Kohtla-Nõmme oil works
- Liidia Lust-Eenpalu remembers June 1941 and leaving Narva
- Hedda-Viiu remembers the Red Army arriving in Narva in October 1939
- Rein Annik remembers the story of the Narva tank monument
- Veterans remember the 4th Border Guard Regiment at Permisküla, 1944
- Vassili Sadam remembers the Kukruse mine and his long road home
- Boris Pšenitšnikov remembers Vasknarva and the 1930s
Castle or fort 6 all over Estonia →
Ancient hillfort 1 all over Estonia →
Manor 18 all over Estonia →
Folk song 1 all over Estonia →
Ancient site 5
Historic town 3
Memorial or cemetery 14
- battle of Utria monument
- Narva Garnisoni kalmistu
- Kukruse manor cemetery
- Monument to the War of Independence in Sinimäe
- battle of Järve monument
- Narva II maailmasõjas hukkunute ühishaud
- Monument to the War of Independence in Tudulinna
- Siivertsi monument
- Monument to the War of Independence in Lüganuse
- monument to Hugo Jürgenson
- Monument to the War of Independence in Jõhvi
- battle of Pagari monument
- Riigiküla battle memorial
- Narva-Jõesuu War of Independence memorial
Historic recording 7
Landscape 5
Sacred stone, spring or grove 4
Church or chapel 9
Lighthouse 2
Lost village 7
Erratic boulder 1
Archive documentary 5
Camp, sleep, walk and warm up
Campsites 4 all over Estonia →
Free forest huts 2 all over Estonia →
Saunas 5 all over Estonia →
Hiking trails 7 all over Estonia →
Nature study trails 2 all over Estonia →
Cycling trails 1 all over Estonia →
Observation towers 2 all over Estonia →
Viewpoints 3
Campfire sites 20 all over Estonia →
- Agusalu campfire site
- Aidu-Liiva campfire site
- Aidu-Nõmme campfire site
- Alulinna campfire site
- Iisaku hill campfire site
- Jõuga lakes campfire site
- Kõrtsikraavi campfire site
- Langevoja campfire site
- Liivjärve campfire site
- Martiska campfire site
- Mummassaare campfire site
- Narva jõe campfire site
- Nõmmejärve campfire site
- Ovintse campfire site
- Rääkjärve campfire site
- Rüütli campfire site
- Selisoo campfire site
- Toila campfire site
- Uljaste campfire site
- Võhma campfire site
Rest stops 1
Visitor centres 1
Photo spots
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