Sangaste (Võro: Sangastõ) is a small borough (Estonian: alevik) in Otepää Parish, Valga County, southern Estonia.

[1] Sangaste castle or manor (German: Schloss Sagnitz) traces its history to at least 1522, when it was part of the estates of the bishop of Tartu.

The manor house was unusually modern for its time, equipped with central heating, telephones in 1896, and electric light in 1907.

[2][3] According to legend, it owes its existence to an insult the local count Friedrich Georg Magnus von Berg received in his youth.

When attempting to wed a young English lady, her father objected to giving his daughter away to "some Russian savage".