The Order of the Brothers of the Sword began building Sigulda castle in 1207. Initially, it was a castellum-type fort; follow ...
The clay brick bridge across the Venta built in 1874 is one of the longest of this type of bridge in Europe. The bridge was b ...
The Krimulda Castle dates from the 14th century and was destroyed in a war in 1601. During the 13th century the left bank of ...
Salaspils concentration camp was established at the end of 1941. The Nazi bureaucracy drew distinctions between different typ ...
The first mention of the Ludza Castle dates from 1433 when the Livonian Order built a large and strong fortress to replace an ...
Before the arrival of the Teutonic Knights, Koknese was the site of a wooden hill fort inhabited by the Balts. In 1209 Bishop ...
Kandava settlement was first mentioned in 1230 in a peace treaty between the residents of Riga and the residents of the Abava ...
The Livonian Order's stone castle is the oldest building in Dobele, and a national architectural monument. It was built on th ...
Lielvārde Castle was built by Riga Archbishop at the steep bank of Daugava River, overseeing this important medieval wat ...
Burtnieki was a site of a Livonian Order castle, built in 1284. The house was burned down in the 16th century, during the Liv ...
Dinaburga Castle was strategically situated on a high bank of the Daugava river. It was built between 1273 and 1277 by the Li ...
The Livonian Order erected Grobiņa Castle in 1253 to protect the roads from Livonia to Prussia. It was a square type bui ...
Rauna Castle ruins was the principal residence of the Archbishopric of Riga in which at for certain period each year it was v ...
Aizpute castle was built in the 13th and 14th centuries by the Livonian Order. This was regular planned castella type Order&r ...
Canon Meinard of the Augustinian Order of Segeberg monastery in Holstein started to build a church in Ikskile in 1184. Until ...
The Jungfernhof concentration camp was an improvised concentration camp in Latvia. It was in operation from December 1941 thr ...
Ērģeme castle served as a powerful fortress for the protection of the Livonian Holy Order eastern border and as a c ...
Gaujiena Castle was built between 1236 and 1238. Severely damaged in 1702 during the Great Northern War, the structure was ab ...
Alūksne Castle was built in 1342 by Teutonic Knights on the largest of the islands in the Lake Alūksne and called M ...
Aizkraukle Castle (Ascheraden) is the ruins of a medieval castle, located on the right bank of the river Daugava. The castle ...