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Zaklu secular stone (The Great Vizla Stone) |
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Stameriena palace |
Stāmeriena castle buildings are quite new compared to other Latvian manors. There is a more than 20 ha landscape park around the castle. It is formed following the so-called fan-principle, i.e. very long_ |
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Ape Tourist Information Centre |
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Strenci Tourist Information Centre |
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Cesis Castle Ruins |
Cesis castle ruins(13th century)- Latvia's most impressive and best preserved complex of castle ruins, and is the most popular sight in Cesis Old Town |
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St. Simon Church |
St Simon's church was built in 1283 and its medieval appearance has generally been preserved. There are tombstones of prominent citizens from the 15th and the 16th centuries, paintings from the 18th_ |
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Sculpture "Valmieras puikas" ("Valmiera Boys" - characters of a novel) |
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River Ierikupite Waterfalls |
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The White Castle |
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Mazsalaca Tourist Information Centre |
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Valmiera Tourist Information Centre |
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Valmiera Order Castle Ruins |
This wall is most that remains of the Order castle, built in the 1280's. The 1283 Church of St. Simon can be seen in the background. |
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St. Sergius of Radonez Orthodox Church |
The Russian Orthodox Church of St Sergi of Radonez was built in 1877 according to a project developed by the first academically educated Latvian architect Frīdrihs Baumanis (1836-1891). The church is built_ |
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Memorial in Warrior |
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Cesvaine Castle |
1890-1897) – built in a very unusual mixture of architectural styles with walls made from granite stones, Cesvaine is truly unique. The neo-renaissance interior has partly survived, with an ornate_ |
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Aluksne Regional Tourist Information Centre |
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Smiltene Tourist Information Centre |
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Lielstraupe Castle |
Built at the end of the 13th C. by Fabian von Rosen, vassal of the Riga Archbishop.Often damaged during wars, it was always rebuilt. Last burned down during the 1905 uprisings, then reconstructed in original_ |
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The Old drugstore |
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Valmiera Local History Museum |
Regular expositions about the region's history and other exhibitions are arranged here. The museum offers educational programmes and historical plays as well as traditional wedding programmes. |
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Gallows Hill |
On the hill near the Mill Pond. The Gallows Hill is a 13th century gathering site and a market splace and since the mid-14th century - a hanging hill. In the morning of December 22, 1919 eleven young_ |
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