Lutepää

Lutepää is a small community on the Värska to Saatse gravel road in southeast Estonia. At first sight, just like a thousand other villages in the lake and forest landscape of this region where the Russian - Estonian border twists and turns in a manner that defies the logic of everyday life.

But Lutepää (often misspelt Lutepaa) is utterly unusual for it is one of the few villages in the European Union which can only be reached by travelling through Russia. The one and only road through Lutepää cuts, on either side of the village, through Russia. No Russian visa is required to drive the road to Lutepää, but those in transit are not allowed to stop en route.

Lutepää, small hamlet that it is, scarcely features in many maps and guides, but a note about this diminutive community can be found at the web-site [http://www.hiddeneurope.co.uk/barticle_info.php?articles_id=112 Hidden Europe]

Its geographical coordinates are coord|57|55|00|N|27|42|46|E|type:city|display=inline,title.