Insight Guides - Insight Guides Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (Travel Guide eBook)

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Getting around the e-book

This Insight Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration for your visit to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as comprehensive planning advice to make sure you have the best travel experience. The guide begins with our selection of Top Attractions, as well as our Editors Choice categories of activities and experiences. Detailed features on history, people and culture paint a vivid portrait of contemporary life in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The extensive Places chapters give a complete guide to all the sights and areas worth visiting. The Travel Tips provide full information on getting around, activities from culture to shopping to sport, plus a wealth of practical information to help you plan your trip.

In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.

Maps

All key attractions and sights in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map] just tap this to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.

Images

Youll find hundreds of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Simply double-tap on an image to see it full-screen.

About Insight Guides

Insight Guides have more than 40 years experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.

Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.

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Estonia, Latvia & Lithuanias Top 10 Attractions

From saunas, sandy beaches and untouched islands to state-of-the-art galleries and old-world architecture, the three Baltic States have plenty to tempt visitors.

Top Attraction 1

Tallinn Old Town . This is as pretty as Old Towns get, with cobbled streets, a harmonious square and attractive buildings such as The Three Sisters. Like the other two capitals, Tallinn is an Unesco World Heritage Site. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 2

Palmse Manor . One of the finest restored manors around, the house and grounds show the luxurious lifestyle of the Baltic German nobles who bought it in 1873. There is a coach and car museum here, too. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 3

Museum of the History of Rga and Navigation . The best historical museum in the Baltics, it explains the Latvian capitals rich past acquired by the Hansa merchants, with paintings, furniture and decorative arts. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 4

The Curonian Spit . This magnificent 98km (60-mile) spit is a dazzling white sandy hill alongside the Lithuanian coast. One must see it to give pleasure to ones soul, wrote Alexander von Humboldt. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 5

Gauja National Park . This is the place to go for outdoor activities, from bobsleighing to canoeing, horse riding to bungee-jumping. Its a favourite of Latvians, who, like all Baltic people, love the outdoor life. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 6

Saunas . Dont visit without trying a sauna. Traditionally, these lie at the heart of country homes, but today can be found in hotels and locations throughout the three countries. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 7

Amber Museum, Palanga . This extraordinary fossil of pine resin is a feature of the Baltic coast, where it made many fortunes. The museum in Palanga, Lithuania, is the place to find out all about it. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 8

Saaremaa . The largest of Estonias many islands is a real rural retreat, with a marina, meteorite craters and the castle at Kuressaare, the only complete medieval fortress in the Baltics. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 9

Art Nouveau, Rga . Latvias capital is known for its Art Nouveau, which flourished here at the turn of the 20th century. Among its architects was Mikhail Eisenstein, father of the great filmmaker. For more information, .

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Top Attraction 10

Trakai . Built just outside Vilnius in the 14th century by Grand Duke Vytautus, this imposing brick Gothic castle, beautifully set on a lake, embodies Lithuanias glorious past. For more information, .