Daugavpils Travel Guide

 daugavpilietis Says:  The district between 18. novembra iela and the river is called Gajoks (the name may be derived from a Slavic word for woods). It was joined to Daugavpils in 1866, and in 1889 a pumping station was completed that provided water for the steam that powered the growing number of... 

 daugavpilietis Says:  The oldest public park in the city (1882), on 3 ha, contains a tomb for Soviet soldiers who fell when Daugavpils was captured from the Nazis in 1944. 

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 MarkMoore Says:  There is a pretty good train service to Riga which leaves Daugavpils a few times per day. The most convenient service (to catch aircraft) would be the 06:15 train which gets to Riga at about 9.01. When I used it, it was on time and even had a DVD showing - although the train... 

 roman-w Says:  Shopping? What? Some goats? Actually we saw some goats browsing in a kind of public park close to the railroad..... 

 roman-w Says:  Daugavpils is Latvijas version of the end of the world. There is actually nothing big happening there. It was hard for us to find someone who speaks english, to find a restaurant and to find accomodation. It's a quite left old industry city, as I said, nothing worth to see,... 

 daugavpilietis Says:  According to Father Aleksei Zhilko of the First Congregation (in Jaunbūve -- see "Things To Do"), Daugavpils has more Old Believers' congregations than any other city in the world (the Old Believers took refuge from persecution in what is now Latvia from the 17th C).... 

 daugavpilietis Says:  The pirts (Latv.) or banya (Rus.) in the Vorstadt, stones and firewood at the ready. Many of the wooden houses you'll see in the sandy streets around here have no running water, so the public baths are not a luxury but a necessity. The Vorstadt's is one of the better pirtis... 

 daugavpilietis Says:  There are eight lakes within the city limits of Daugavpils. Šuņezers (often written as Šūnezers or in other variants) lies between the Vorstadt and the Fortress, and just beyond it is another village-like neighborhood called Viduspoguļanka. There is a unique... 

 daugavpilietis Says:  The official name for the Soviet-era nightmare beyond the Old Vorstadt is the New Vorstadt, but most everybody still calls the area "Pervomaiskaya" -- May Day was the name of the "microregion" prior to the restoration of independence. This is Golden Hill -- at the end of... 

 daugavpilietis Says:  A new Catholic church is being built at Baložu iela 3 in the Vorstadt. According to the local Church, 60% of the Catholics in Daugavpils are ethnic Poles, 30% are ethnic Latvians, and 10% are ethnic Belarusians -- in reality, perhaps 30% of the children baptized here are... 

 daugavpilietis Says:  The Vorstadt's Orthodox church is currently being restored (the number of churches being refurbished or built in the city is remarkable, and it follows decades of destruction -- the Aleksandr Nevsky Cathedral [at Pumpura, formerly Nevsky, Square] was blown up by the Soviets... 

 daugavpilietis Says:  An Old Believers' church in Vecā Forštate (in Līksnas iela between Aveņu and Šūņu ielas, near Šūņezers, the lake separating the Vorstadt from Poguļanka and the Fortress) probably existed already in the 18th C, before the Fortress was... 

 daugavpilietis Says:  Vecā Forštate (The Old Vorstadt or "Suburb") was built up when the old city was razed to build the Fortress -- most of Daugavpils' early 19th C population lived here; others were transferred from what is now the Fortress to the Esplanāde in 1826, but that... 

 roman-w Says:  In Daugavpils you can live a easy life, because there is nothing special to do. The people are friendly and helpful, even when they do not speak english at all. Russian can help, since they are close to Russia. They have some nice public parks to hang around and there is...