Lahemaa Nationl Park-Part Two-Palmse Manor
February 14th 2009 (Excerpted from my book Our Summer In Estonia, Amazon.com)
The first mention of the location Palmse dates to 1287 when it was mentioned in connection to properties belonging to Tallinn's St. Michael's Nunnery. The Cistercian monks traded their rights to the land to a Swedish family in 1510, and through marriage it devolved to the von der Phalen family in 1676. Palmse would remain in the Phalen
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