Litsmetsa ( vro, Litsmõtsa) is a settlement in

Antsla Parish Antsla Parish ( et, Antsla vald) is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Võru County. Settlements ;Town Antsla ;Small boroughs Kobela - Vana-Antsla ;Villages Anne - Antsu - Haabsaare - Jõepera - Kaika - Kassi - Kikkaoja - Kirikuküla - ...

Võru County Võru County ( et, Võru maakond or ''Võrumaa''; vro, Võro maakund) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga County and Põlva County and is the only Estonian county bordering two countries - Latvia (Alūksne Municipality and ...

in southeastern

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

Elias Lönnrot Elias Lönnrot (; 9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a Finnish physician, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish oral poetry. He is best known for creating the Finnish national epic, ''Kalevala'', (1835, enlarged 1849), from short b ...

, author of the Finnish epic

Kalevala The ''Kalevala'' ( fi, Kalevala, ) is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology, telling an epic story about the Creation of the Earth, describing the controversies and r ...

, stayed in Litsmetsa for six days in September 1844.Häbemata nimega küla. Eesti Ekspress, 20 December 2001
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Satellite map at Maplandia.com
Villages in Võru County Kreis Werro {{Võru-geo-stub