Haapsalu
Haapsalu is an urban municipality of Estonia, in Lääne County. It comprises the town of Haapsalu and settlements of the former parish of Ridala.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: city with 13,400 residents
- Description: municipality of Estonia (2017)
- Also known as: “0184” and “Haapsalu City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Haapsalu Episcopal Castle and Haapsalu Old Town Hall.
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.
Station building of Haapsalu railway station
Railway station
Photo: Athanasius Soter, CC BY-SA 3.0 ee.
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.
Haapsalu
- Location: Lääne, Estonia, Baltic states, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Võro—“Haapsalu” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հաապսալու քաղաք”
- Basque: “Haapsalu Hiria”
- Basque: “Haapsalu”
- Belarusian: “Хаапсалу”
- Cebuano: “Haapsalu linn”
- Chinese: “哈普萨卢”
- Danish: “Haapsalu bykommune”
- Dutch: “Haapsalu”
- Estonian: “Haapsalu linn”
- Finnish: “Haapsalun kaupunki”
- French: “Commune de Haapsalu”
- Galician: “concello de Haapsalu”
- Galician: “Concello de Haapsalu”
- German: “Haapsalu”
- Hungarian: “Haapsalu linn”
- Hungarian: “Haapsalu város”
- Latvian: “Hāpsalu pilsētas pašvaldība”
- Maltese: “Haapsalu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Haapsalu bykommune”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Haapsalu bykommune”
- Norwegian: “Haapsalu kommune”
- Russian: “Хаапсалу”
- Spanish: “Haapsalu (municipio)”
- Spanish: “Haapsalu”
- Swedish: “Hapsal”
- Swedish: “Hapsals stad”
- Ukrainian: “Хаапсалу”
- Võro: “Haapsalu liin”
- “Haapsalu liin”
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