Põlva is home for the Intsikurmu Music Festival Grounds, which regularly hosts concerts and summer activities, situated in a small forested area on the west side of the town.

Around 1240, shortly after the Christianization of Estonia, the Bernardine monks built a church, which they dedicated to the Virgin Mary.

The town was developed around St. Mary's Church, which lay in ruins for a long time until it was rebuilt after the Great Northern War.

The town grew around its artificial lake, whose sandy shores teem with vacationers during the summer.

The importance of education is indicated by the town's coat of arms, which features a rooster with a pointer from an ABC primer.

The new gymnasium provides excellent opportunities for sports and the shooting gallery of Põlva has been the hothouse of top sportsmen who hit targets at various competitions.

This surely facilitates the success of the sportsmen of the Kobras Orienteering Club at competitions and urges them to organise sports events.

This stadium is covered with a third-generation synthetic lawn and its lighting and underheating systems are equipped according to international requirements.