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Viljandi might just be the most adorable small town of Estonia . Between the wooden houses on small hills and meadows, you’ll find curved streets that don’t follow others or themselves. The town looks like it is stuck between gears on the wheels of time with falling paint and crooked windows.
Viljandi, like most places in Estonia, boasts its own ruins of a medieval castle and numerous churches. Also, the quiet 19,000-people town gets very crowded at the end of every July during Viljandi Folk Music Festival when at least the same amount of people pour in from other areas of Estonia. At the festival, Estonian and international folk artists perform amazing feats of different types of folk whilst most Estonians choose drinking beer on the grass for the whole day over listening to them.
Visiting during summer grants you the opportunity to have a swim in the nearby lake, for the extremely healthy ones, there’s also a 12-13km run around the lake every 1st of May.
Visiting Viljandi for a day is easy if you’re on the way to Latvia anyway. A small extension to your route is definitely worth it!
