Lutike is a village in

Otepää Parish Otepää Parish ( et, Otepää vald) is a rural municipality in Valga County, southern Estonia. It includes the town of Otepää. Settlements ;Town Otepää ;Small boroughs Puka - Sangaste ;Villages Ädu - Arula- Ilmjärve - Kääriku - ...

Valga County Valga County ( et, Valga maakond or ''Valgamaa'') is a first-level administrative unit and one of 15 counties of Estonia. It comprises the former area of Valga District. The present-day county was created on 1 January 1990. The capital and larg ...

, in southeastern

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, about northeast of the town of

Otepää Otepää (formerly Nuustaku) is a town in Valga County, southern Estonia, it is the administrative centre of Otepää Parish. Otepää is a popular skiing resort, popularly known as the "winter capital" of Estonia (in contrast to the "summer ca ...

. Lutike has a population of 27 (as of 1 January 2011). There are several lakes located in the village. One of them is

Lake Leigo Leigo Lakes is a group of sixteen artificial lakes in 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 th ...

, where the

Leigo Lake Music Festival Leigo Lake Music Festival ( et, Leigo Järvemuusika Festival) is Estonian music festival which is held in Lutike, Valga County. Besides music, light and fire performances are shown. The festival is named after Leigo Tourism Farm. Near the fest ...

has been held annually since 1998. The children's writer

Leida Tigane Leida Tigane (21 May 1908 Tartu – 13 February 1983 Tallinn) was an Estonian prose and children's writer. In 1927, she graduated from Girls' Gymnasium of Estonian Youth Education Society. After that, she had several jobs: working for the scienti ...

has described the life in the village in the 1920s in her novel ''Seitse pastlapaari''.

Gallery

File:Lutike Otepää kõrgustik.JPG, Landscape near Lutike File:Leigo järv2, 2008.jpg, One of several of the

Leigo Lakes Leigo Lakes is a group of sixteen artificial lakes in 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 th ...

File:Leigo Järvemuusika 2007.jpg,

in 2007 File:Leigo, 2010.jpg,

References

External links

Leigo Tourist Farm and Lake Music Festival
Villages in Valga County {{valga-geo-stub