| Villa Wesset |
With the best location and attractive boutique hotel in Parnu (Pärnu).
Villa Wesset is situated on a main street leading to the beach, just a couple of hundred metres from the beach and in immediate vicinity of the city centre. The hotel was finished in 2007 and has 24 rooms. Of these, 2 are larger junior suites with a bathtub, 1 is a three-bed room and 21 are double-bed rooms. The historical background of the building makes itself known to the visitors via old squeaking stairs, stylish wooden arcs, the open design of the foyer, and windows with a curved top. The lower floor of the hotel houses an A’la Carte restaurant with a cosy interior design and delicious dishes. It is already known as a comfortable and romantic hotel in Estonia and also as a good restaurant in Estonia.
The name of the hotel originates from Elias Jenkel's son Wesset, a Jewish man who owned the villa after its completion in 1928. In 1904, Elias Wesset established the chocolate, cocoa and confectionary factory „Progress” in Pärnu, on Malmö Street. This factory won several prizes on various exhibitions: bronze prize in Riga (1908), silver prize in Pärnu (1909), silver prize in Rostov (1909), gold prize in Kamenski (1909), and medal in Rome (1912), signifying the good quality of the factory's products. In 1940, the confectionary factory was nationalised and after the war, the buildings of the industrial complex of Pärnu (nowadays Viisnurk) were located there, later on also dormitory, engineers' building, rationalisers , book association and, in modern times, various stores.
A hundred years later, the name of one of the most famous confectionary industries is starting to slip into forgotten oblivion, but here and now, the history will be changed …
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