{"id":99092,"date":"2021-11-20T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=99092"},"modified":"2021-11-19T13:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T11:24:16","slug":"this-christmas-tartu-will-offer-an-ice-rink-an-aquarium-a-poetry-bank-and-an-ice-cream-pavilion-as-well-as-an-18-meter-christmas-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/this-christmas-tartu-will-offer-an-ice-rink-an-aquarium-a-poetry-bank-and-an-ice-cream-pavilion-as-well-as-an-18-meter-christmas-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"This Christmas, Tartu will offer an ice rink, an aquarium, a poetry bank and an ice cream pavilion, as well as an 18-meter Christmas tree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Just like last year, Tartu is building a thousand-square-meter ice rink in the heart of the city, on the Town Hall Square. <\/span><\/p>\n

In connection with the skating rink, the traditional \u201cValgusk\u00fcla\u201d or light village will also be found next to the town hall, creating a Christmas atmosphere throughout the square.<\/p>\n

\u201cValgusk\u00fcla\u201d will be completed by the first Sunday of Advent. By the town hall, you will be able to take sleigh rides and get to know the ponies. A straw house, which has already become a classic, will also be built, along with a number of stalls housing coffee and gingerbread merchants.<\/p>\n

In addition, there will be a pavilion showing cartoons along with a traditional wooden, animal-themed carousel on the square. <\/span><\/p>\n

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As a novelty, in cooperation with the Limnology Center of the Estonian University of Life Sciences, an aquarium will be built, where you can get acquainted with fish from Estonian rivers and lakes.<\/p>\n

Lastly, there will be an ice cream parlour in the market and a poetry bank that distributes poems to visitors instead of cash. \u201cValgusk\u00fcla\u201d will be open from 28 November 2021 to 9 January 2022. The ice rink will be open until the end of February 2022. <\/span><\/p>\n

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The Tartu Christmas tree comes from V\u00f5ru<\/b> <\/span><\/h2>\n

The Christmas tree in Tartu Town Hall grew in the village of Koloreino in the municipality of V\u00f5ru. It arrived in Tartu on 16 November.<\/p>\n

\u201cI myself grew up with this spruce. When I was born, it was a small seedling,\u201d said Martin Lupp, a 36-year-old from V\u00f5ru who grew the spruce. The tree, which is nearly 18 metres tall, grew in the backyard of his farmhouse. He is happy to send a spruce from his garden to the residents of Tartu for Christmas. <\/span><\/p>\n

The city of Tartu asked for bids from those landowners who planned to cut down a big spruce before Christmas. A total of a dozen bids were received. The spruce growing in Mr Lupp\u2019s garden proved to be the most suitable. The Christmas tree will remain in the Town Hall Square until 17 January.<\/p>\n

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