Sõmerpalu


Sõmerpalu is a small borough in Võru County, Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Sõmerpalu Parish.

Sõmerpalu manor

The history of the local manor goes back to at least 1544, when there was a fortified manor, a so-called "vassal castle", at approximately the same site as the present-day manor house. During the Livonian War, however, this building was destroyed, and a new manor house was built some time after this. The present house was erected in the 1860s in the then-popular neo-Gothic style.