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Remains of lost capital city of Kurland in WWII. Vecpilsetas street in rain

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Grand and sublime as a Tsarist palace receives a huge baroque palace every traveler, from Riga to Jelgava comes. It is the symbol of the fourth largest city in Latvia (64 000 Ew.) And testimony of former importance. In the 17th and 18 Jelgava century stood as the capital of the Duchy of Courland, which had also belonged Zemgale, for luxury and power. Long before stood in place of the castle on the island at the confluence of Lielupe Driksa and 1265, founded the castle of the Livonian Order ja...

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sight Jelgava Palace (Jelgavas pils)

Studying with princely corpses in the basement. Today in Latvia who studied agriculture, crop learns his lessons in feudal atmosphere: In the Baroque castle resides Jelgava State Agricultural Academy. I...

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sight Academia Petrina

Latvia's former elite school in Jelgava excludes no one from today. So once studied noble elite of Latvia: The baroque-classicist jewel hid the first higher education institution in the country. At the ...

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