Tahkuna Lighthouse is located in the northern part of the island of Hiiumaa at Cape Tahkuna. The tower was about the so-called Gordon system. This means that going from the lighthouse has manufactured and imported parts, which significantly reduces the overall construction and simplified assembly of the lighthouse.

Details of the lighthouse was made in Paris in the early 1870s. Construction was bought Russian tsar in Paris at the time of the World Exhibition. Details of the lighthouse made of cast iron.

The lighthouse has a height of 42, 6 meters, the fire can be seen for 18 nautical miles. (one nautical mile corresponds to 1.852 km). Around the tower is built farmhouse complex of buildings of the 19th century., Which are now converted into a museum. Visitors here can learn the history of the lighthouse Tahkuna with the farmhouse buildings and feel the atmosphere of the time, ordering smoke sauna.

Lighthouse Tahkuna incredibly beautiful - white, with a red roof stands proudly on a promontory above the surrounding farmhouse buildings.

The lighthouse is open to visitors. Once you are there, you will certainly have to look at opening a great view from the top, even if the weather would be cloudy.

Near the lighthouse, on the spot where the waves nailed to the island of the first victims of the shipwreck of the ferry "Estonia" in 1994, the memorial. The monument is a cross swinging on a parallelogram, attached to the base of the cross bell, which you can call to commemorate the victims. On the basis of diamond-shaped carved coordinates shipwreck and the date of the sad incident.

The death of the ferry "Estonia" - one of the most terrible tragedies of the 20th century. According to reports on the board were 989 people: 803 passengers and 186 crew members. Just managed to save 137 people, most of them were men. Children and women were much less likely to escape. Of the children under 12 years, no one could escape.

Officially, the cause of the crash is the penetration of water into the hold of the ferry through the car door. However, there are various unofficial version and investigations, according to which this tragedy many secrets that the government does not wish to disclose.