Narva-Jõesuu
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Narva-Jõesuu is a town in eastern Estonia at the Gulf of Finland, 15 km north from Narva.Understand
Get in
By bus
From Narva it takes about 20 min with the bus for about €1.In general, bus schedules are available online – read more under Estonia#Get around.
Get around
The centre of the town can be explored on foot. For stretches of the beach further southwest, you might want to take a car or bus.
See
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Narva-Jõesuu Ethnographic Museum
phone: +3723577312address: Nurme 38Exhibitions about the local history, day-to-day life, culture, education, nature etc. -
T-34 Tank
address: Jõesuu tnThe monument commemorates battles of World War II and indicates breakthrough of Soviet forces. Narva’s tank is the only such memorial being exhibited in Estonia from the war until today. Cultural kettle
Do
- Narva-Jõesuu is a well known spa holiday destination. Numerous holiday centres and spa hotels are open to visitors.
- Narva-Jõesuu offers its visitors the longest coastal beach in Estonia. Even during hot summer days, when the beach is heavily crowded, you can always find yourself a decent place to relax with absolutely no one around, if you walk down the shore a little.
Eat
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phone: +372 3577307, +372 5577351address: Vabaduse 25
Sleep
Go next
- Narva – Estonia's eastern-most and third largest city, on the Narva River, which is the border with Russia. Famous for the Hermann castle, right opposite of the Ivangorod's castle, and the Kreenholm factories. Even though it might seem grey and dull.
- Sillamäe – A beautiful coastal town in the east and formerly closed city with the best ensemble of Stalinist architecture in the entire Baltics. Built after the war with an uranium processing plant, successfully redesigned after Estonia's independence.
- Toila – A small coastal and historic resort town, also west-wards.
- Püssi – A poor but now recovering town with an interesting artificial mountain made of ash from its oil shale power plant, which has been depositing ash in the location since the 1930s. Nowadays, the mountain is used for motocross.
- Kuremäe – Contains the famous Pukhitsa convent/nunnery, the only Orthodox monastery in the whole of Estonia.