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Valmiera celebrates its 741st birthday

06 Aug 2024

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Located in northern Latvia, the city of Valmiera celebrated its 741st birthday last week. It was also the opportunity to commemorate the 120th anniversary of Janis Dalins, a ...
24 Jul 2024

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Traveling to Riga is a great opportunity to discover the neighboring countries. While most students go to Latvia and Estonia, Stockholm is in fact a quick getaway from Latvia. ...
18 Jul 2024

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One week ago the city of Cesis, in the Vidzeme region, welcomed the Lampa Festival, a yearly conversational forum founded in 2015. [gallery columns="1" size="large" ...
02 Jul 2024

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On a cold Saturday morning, I jumped on a bus heading towards the tip of Cape Kolka, on the coast of the Gulf of Riga. As I started to read about the history of Latvia after ...
28 Jun 2024

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Лиговать is a verb you could only encounter when celebrating Ligo in Latvia. Ligo (Лиго) is the midsummer feast celebrated in Latvia every year at the end of June. You can ...
16 Sep 2023

As a Liden and Denz student in Latvia, the most common weekend-away trips I have heard about are to Daugavpils, Vilnius or Tallin. However, one of Latvia's hidden gems lies in ...