Paralepa
Paralepa is a small borough in Haapsalu municipality, Lääne County, western Estonia. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 306. Prior to the 2017 administrative reform of local governments, it was located in Ridala Parish.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Haapsalu Episcopal Castle and Station building of Haapsalu railway station.
Haapsalu Episcopal Castle
Photo: Sander Säde, CC BY 3.0.
Haapsalu Castle is a castle with cathedral in Haapsalu, Estonia, founded in the thirteenth century as the seat of the Bishopric of Ösel-Wiek. According to legend, during full moons in August, an image of a maiden, The White Lady, appears on the inner wall of the chapel. Haapsalu Episcopal Castle is situated 2½ km north of Paralepa.
Station building of Haapsalu railway station
Railway station
Photo: Athanasius Soter, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Alexander Nevsky church, Haapsalu
Church
Photo: Ieromonah.innokenti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Alexander Nevsky Church is an orthodox church in the Haapsalu old cemetery, Estonia. It was built to a design by Alexander Krasovsky in a typical Russian Revival style between 1896 and 1897, during the period when the country was part of the Russian Empire.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haapsalu.
Haapsalu
Photo: Iifar, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
Haapsalu is a major seaside resort town on the west coast of Estonia, approximately 100 km south-west of Tallinn.
Paralepa
- Type: Village with 233 residents
- Description: township in Haapsalu, Lääne County, Estonia
- Categories: township and locality
- Location: Kiltsi küla, Haapsalu, Lääne, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
58.92387° or 58° 55′ 26″ northLongitude
23.53613° or 23° 32′ 10″ eastPopulation
233Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
9GC5WGFP+GFOpenStreetMap ID
node 926153783OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
795199Wikidata ID
Q3469653
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Volapük—“Paralepa” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պառալեպա”
- Bulgarian: “Паралепа”
- Cebuano: “Paralepa”
- Dutch: “Paralepa”
- Estonian: “Paralepa alevik”
- Estonian: “Paralepa”
- French: “Paralepa”
- German: “Paralepa”
- Hungarian: “Paralepa”
- Polish: “Paralepa”
- Portuguese: “Paralepa”
- Russian: “Паралепа”
- Scots: “Paralepa”
- Spanish: “Paralepa”
- Swedish: “Paralepa”
- Ukrainian: “Паралепа”
- Uzbek: “Paralepa”
- Volapük: “Paralepa”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Paralepa”. Photo: Minnekon, CC BY 4.0.