Modern study environment in an historic atmosphere: While current-day students enjoy modern and very well-equipped lecture halls, laboratories, and classrooms, a lot of the university buildings go back centuries, creating a unique and harmonious blend of old and new. The University History Museum resides in a 13th century cathedral. The University Main Building, built in 1804-1809, is a comfortable workplace for the university administration, but it is also an historic monument and a dominant landmark on the town landscape.

Karlova, with its more than 400 wooden buildings, represents one of the sights of Tartu. In big and wealthier cities of Northern Europe such settlements have given way to more modern stone buildings a long time ago but fortunately, they still exist in Tartu.

Would You like to see a slum of Tartu characteristic to Tartu of the previous century, in almost authentic form? If yes, go toward Supilinn located in the northwestern part of the town.