Estonian Manor Houses

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Estonia is a very small country, same size as Denmark. It has 5 times smaller population than Denmark, lots of forest and more than 1000 historical manor houses all over the country.

• Medieval fortified manors. Built in the 13th-16th centuries. There were around 100 manors of such type in Estonia
  
• Medieval wooden manors. Built in the 13th-16th centuries. Around a few of hundred
  
• Old Baltic manors. Typical style of a modest manor of the 17th – 18th centuries (and maybe also earlier)
  
• Renaissance. Lasted in Estonia from 1530 until the1630s-1640s
  
• Baroque. Dominated Estonia from 1630s-1640s until the end of the 18th century
  
• Late Baroque and Early Classicism. Transition period from Baroque to Classicism, from about 1770s until 1800
  
• Classicism. Dominant architectural style from 1800s-1840s.
  
• Historicism (Neo-Gothic, Neo-Renaissance and Neo-Baroque styles). From 1840s to World War I (1914)
  
• Art Nouveau. Spread alongside Historicism from about 1900.
  
• The Heimat style. A more tranquil and modest trend of Art Nouveau, dominated Estonia from about 1900-10.

Many of them are for sale, and I could find them in property sites too.

I think they’re gorgeous!

I like they’re standing alone in the middle of nature, makes strongly different Estonian seasons specially enjoyable for people who live in these manors.

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