Insight Guides Pocket Riga (Travel Guide eBook) by Insight Guides
Author:Insight Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Latvia
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2019-08-28T16:00:00+00:00
View from Turaida Castle
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Sigulda did not recover until the 19th century with the opening of the Riga–Pskov railway. Its romantic castle ruins, ancient churches and picturesque valley soon became major tourist attractions earning its hilly, forest-covered terrain the nickname ‘Latvia’s Switzerland’. Today, Sigulda enjoys the country’s most developed tourism infrastructure with the same proven sights, as well as new activities such as nature hikes on marked trails, rafting and canoeing trips on the river, rides down a bobsleigh track and bungee jumping from a cable car above the valley. Sigulda is about an hour’s ride by train from Riga.
Sigulda’s most striking attraction is the Turaida Museum Reserve 4 [map] (Turaidas muzejrezervāts; www.turaida-muzejs.lv; daily May–Sept 9am–8pm, Oct until 7pm, Nov–Mar 10am–5pm), which offers several noteworthy historical sites, the most obvious being the partially reconstructed brick Turaida Castle (Turaidas pils), built in 1214. Archaeological excavations are continuing, but visitors can view the small museum dedicated to the castle and the Liv tribes that once lived in the area. The castle tower offers excellent views of the valley. Outside the castle grounds is one of the oldest wooden churches in Latvia, built in 1750.
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