Gauja National Park – largest national park in Latvia

January 17, 2011 by europeexplored No Comments

Gauja National Park is Latvia’s largest and oldest national park — a deeply picturesque landscape of the ancient Gauja River valley, Devonian sandstone cliffs, dense forests, and three magnificent medieval castles (Turaida, Sigulda, and Krimulda) scattered across the park’s 917 square kilometres. Known as the “Switzerland of Latvia” for its unusually hilly terrain in an […]

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