In the region · Ida-Viru County
Coastal village and park
Toila-Oru Park descends from the limestone cliff towards the sea; the Estonian president's summer residence stood here until it was destroyed in the war. West of it begins the Ontika cliff and Valaste waterfall — the highest in Estonia. Industrial landscape and protected coast sit twenty kilometres apart here.
"Twenty kilometres from an ash hill, water falls forty metres. The same county."
2 · Experience
A park descending from the limestone cliff to the sea, once the site of the Estonian president's summer residence. The palace was destroyed in 1944; the park remained.
Why it belongs to the storyA calm counterweight to industry twenty kilometres away. The same county, an entirely different tempo.
Estonia's highest waterfall (about 30 m) on the edge of the Baltic Klint; in winter it freezes into ice columns. The Ontika cliff here is nearly 55 metres high.
Why it belongs to the storyGeology older than everything else in this atlas. The cliff shows the very layers that oil shale is taken from.
