Kolu is a village in
Kose Parish
Kose Parish () is a rural municipality in northern Estonia. It is a part of Harju County. The municipality has a population of 5,737 (as of 1 January 2004) and covers an area of . The population density is 24.2 inhabitants per km2.
In October 20 ...
,
Harju County
Harju County ( or ''Harjumaa''), is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the southeast, Rapla Count ...
in northern
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
. Located near a centuries-old trade route, it is the original location of the
Kolu Inn, originally built around 1840 and currently at the
Estonian Open Air Museum
The Estonian Open Air Museum ( Estonian: ''Eesti Vabaõhumuuseum'') is a life-sized reconstruction of an 18th-19th century rural/fishing village, which includes church, tavern, schoolhouse, several mills, a fire station, twelve farmyards and net ...
.
Ancient sacral sites
The village is a site of protected ancient
cult stones.
[Harju Maavalitsus 1998]
Harju maakonnaplaneering, I etapp
, page xxxiii
References
Villages in Harju County
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