Litsmetsa () is a settlement in

Antsla Parish Antsla Parish () is a rural Municipalities of Estonia, municipality of Estonia, in Võru County. Settlements ;Town Antsla ;Small boroughs Kobela, Estonia, Kobela - Vana-Antsla ;Villages Anne, Estonia, Anne - Antsu - Haabsaare - Jõepera, Võru C ...

Võru County Võru County ( or ''Võrumaa''; ) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga and Põlva counties, Latvia's Alūksne and Ape municipalities, and Russia's Pskov Oblast (making it the only Estonian county to border two countries) ...

in southeastern

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 ...

Elias Lönnrot Elias Lönnrot (; 9 April 1802 – 19 March 1884) was a Finnish polymath, physician, philosopher, poet, musician, linguist, journalist, philologist and collector of traditional Finnish language, Finnish Oral literature, oral poetry. He is best k ...

, author of the Finnish epic

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

, 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