Kissing Students (Estonian : Suudlevad tudengid) is sculpture and fountain in Raekoja plats, Tartu, Estonia. The structure locates in front of Town Hall Square. The structure is one of the most recognised symbols of Tartu. [1]
The fountain was built in 1948 and it was used especially by newlyweds who sought to find luck for future when standing there. [1]
The sculpture was created in 1998 by Mati Karmin. [1]
The University of Tartu is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest and most prestigious university. It was founded under the name of Academia Gustaviana in 1632 by Baron Johan Skytte, the Governor-General (1629–1634) of Swedish Livonia, Ingria, and Karelia, with the required ratification provided by his long-time friend and former student – from age 7 –, King Gustavus Adolphus, shortly before the king's death on 6 November in the Battle of Lützen (1632), during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).
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Korporatsioon Sakala is a fraternal organization of Estonian higher education students. It was established at the University of Tartu on November 14, 1909.
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The Gunpowder Cellar is a historic building in Tartu, Estonia which now functions as a beer restaurant.
The Estonian Students' Society is the largest and oldest all-male academical student society in Estonia, and is similar to the Baltic German student organizations known as corporations (Corps). It was founded in 1870 at Tartu. It has over 900 members in Estonia and abroad.
Laeva is a village in Tartu Parish, Tartu County, Estonia. Prior to 2017, it was administrative centre of Laeva Parish.
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Mati Karmin is one of Estonia's most renowned contemporary sculptors. His career as an artist is characterised by an intense and remarkably versatile activity. Like many of his contemporaries, the representatives of so-called 1980s generation in the Estonian art, Karmin received professional training in the Estonian Academy of Art, which was thorough, yet traditional, not to say conservative according to the international criteria. During his studies, Estonian sculpture was predominantly figurative and employed traditional materials like stone and bronze.
Korp! Ugala is a fraternal organization of Estonian higher education students. It was established at the University of Tartu on 10 November 1913.
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The Immaculate Conception Church also known as the Catholic church in Tartu and more formally "Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary" is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church, located in the city of Tartu, the second largest in Estonia.
Raekoja plats is town square beside Tartu Town Hall in the center of the Tartu Old Town in Tartu, Estonia.
Inglisild is a bridge in Toomemägi, Tartu, Estonia.
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