The town of Sigulda – Latvian Switzerland Updated: July 25, 2020 | By Claire | 1 More In the central part of Latvia you can find a beautiful and historically significant town of Sigulda. It lies on the southern outskirts of the picturesque forested valley of the River Gauja. This area is an ideal starting […]
Tags: 12th-century, 13th-century, 18th-century, castles, city, forested-valley, ideal-starting-point, latvia, latvian-state, latvian-switzerland, left-bank, livonian-switzerland, medieval-city, pskov, rental-vacation, resort, rich-families, riga, sigulda, southern-outskirts, sovie, swedes, town, wooden-forts, world-war-ii
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 […]
Tags: 19th-century, canoeing, forests, gauja, gauja-national-park, landscape, largest-national-park-in-latvia, latvia, livonian-switzerland, longest-river, national-park, natural-destination, nature, oldest-national-park-in-latvia, romantic-atmosphere, sandstone-cliffs, sigulda, sigulda-castle, switzerland, tourists
