Dimas Sequeira's photos
Wooden sculpture.
Upside down house.
Ethnographic Museum.
Mural in parking lot.
Outdoor photo frame.
River Emajõgi.
Art Museum of Tartu University.
Warping mural.
Tartu Cathedral.
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At Lossi, Tartu. This is the oldest medieval church and the only with two towers in Estonia. Its construction started in the 13th century and went on until the 16th century. It was a catholic church until the reformation period, when it ceased to be used in religious services. Partially in ruins, part of it houses the Tartu University Museum and both towers still can be visited.
Monument to Johan Skytte.
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At Lassi, Tartu.
Johan Skytte (1577-1645) was a Swedish noble and royal counsellor who promoted the foundation of Tartu University, becoming the first chancellor of this institution in 1632.
Inglisild (Angels' Bridge).
Bust of Nikolay Pirogov.
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At Pirogovi plats, Tartu.
Nikolay Pirogov (1810-1881) was a Russian doctor who developed the Virtual Dissection Table, displaying three-dimensional models of the human body and organs, very useful for surgeons. He made research about the use of anaesthesy, introducing it in surgeries on the battlefield.
Fountain "The Kiss of the Students".
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At Raekoja plats, Tartu, in front of the City Hall. Tartu has many students attending its university.
City Hall.
Art Museum in a leaning building.
Monument to Barclay de Tolly.
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In a garden at Barclay plats, Tartu.
Barclay de Tolly was a Baltic-German knight (1761-1818), born in Lithuania, who fought with Russia in the Turkish-Russian War and in the Swedish-Russian War, then becoming General Governor of Finland. During the invasion of Napoleon's army, he was Minister of Land Forces in Russia and field marshall, succeeding in defeating the iinvader.
Oscar Wilde and Eduard Vilde.
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Statues of two writers who probably never met, installed at Vallikraavi tänav, Tartu.
