The city has a 160-year-old history as a health resort and has once again become an important Baltic resort, this time for tourists while also housing conferences all the year round.

There’s always been something mysteriously therapeutic about Pärnu. Sure, this little pearl of a town has been known as a health resort ever since the first spa opened here in the 1830s, but there’s a lot more to Pärnu’s magical healing power than that.

Maybe it’s the expanse of white, sandy beach and the warm, shallow bay. It might be the old-fashioned town centre with its long row of eclectic shop fronts. Definitely it’s the stretches of quiet, green parks that fill all the gaps between downtown and the beach – those lush, tree-filled areas dotted by magnificent mansions and pre-war villas. More than any one of these though, it’s the fact that these things are just a few steps away from each other that makes this such an ideal place to get away from it all.