Ventspils Travel Guide

 Raimix Says:  Town hall square is a small surrounding in Ventspils old town, where two main buildings are St. Nicolaus church and Writers’ and Translators’ house are located. The place is famous for local people; it is the second most popular places in old town, together with Market... 

 Raimix Says:  The building was constructed in 1905, historicism style. The owner for that time was district chairman Golubevs. Ventspils museum was located here from 1945 till 2000. Nowadays it is renovated place with nearby standing Ventspils library and monument to Janis Fabriciuss,... 

 Raimix Says:  Carillon clock tower is a new structure in Ventspils market square, it appeared here after reconstruction of 2009. When a current hour comes, clock rings as much as it is hours now. Two times per day clock gifts a special melody (at midday and midnight).It is a nice... 

 Raimix Says:  Sculpture of Valdemars is a nice example how recently created attributes of town could easily become main symbols. It is a place quite frequently used in Ventspils postcards; it is very famous place for taking photos.Monument to Krisjanis Valdemars was built in 2000 by... 

 Raimix Says:  The Ventspils castle nowadays is named as the most preserved and having the most modern museum in Latvia (as for 2010). Actually it is hard to agree with both, as I am not big expert of Latvia. Anyway, museum could be better.Venstpils castle was constructed by Livonian Order... 

 Raimix Says:  The place is known from 17th century, in older times actually here was town hall, but not in the place where town hall square is now. Pity, but town hall here was abandoned and demolished in 1850. Place became more popular for markets. Nowadays here you could see some nice... 

 Raimix Says:  St. Nicolas’ Lutheran church is the main attraction of Town Hall square. Church was constructed in 1834-1835 in Classical style and named after St. Nicolas, who is, by history, a patron of sailors and fishermen.Church interior is quite typical for Lutheran churches – not too... 

 Raimix Says:  “Ship watcher” was constructed in 2002 by Rita Dobicina and Igors Dobicins. It is made of red granite, shape as a head and turned into water side. Instead of hair is water spurts. Seems it looks into ships around. 

 Raimix Says:  The place is known from 1904, it was run by Germans Reinks, here was Natural Sciences School located. Nowadays, from 2007, here is Passenger terminal, rebuilt also partly in modern glass style. Here you could find Tourism information centre.Nearby is a green square with a... 

 Raimix Says:  This cow figure is one of the most interesting for visitors of Ventspils, possible because cow is a tourist as well ;) Monument is 4 meters tall and 7 meters long, made as a suitcase and sticked by different signs of places, where “Cow parade” took place. The monument was... 

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 bonio Says:  The bus station is busy, good local service as well as to Riga, Kuldiga and Liepaja.Some buses used are 16 seaters but they,re not too crowded and reasonably comfortable.Bus station is on Kuldigas iela 

 Raimix Says:  Slitere national park is a territory a bit North to Vientspils, ending at Kolka horn, place where Baltic Sea and Riga bay connects each other. Territory is preserved due to various species of plants and animals, but the main thing is old almost untouched dunes, named as... 

 Raimix Says:  Kuldiga is a place, mentioned first in 1242 as a stone castle place. In 1368 it got rights to be named as hanseatic town, for some time (1596 – 1616) it was a capital of Duchy of Courland. Later the importance of town decreased, castle was destroyed in 1702 by Sweedish... 

 Raimix Says:  Seems that after all constructions and reconstructions the most loved style in old part of Ventspils is Jugendstill. Wandering around you could see houses with beautiful Jugensdtill architecture, the same as in other places in Latvia, let’s say, Riga.Actually this style...