the impressive church spire of Kuldiga
We only came to sleep in Kuldiga, well, and maybe check out a thing or two. But what a lovely town this is. High percentage of cobbled streets, high percentage of well-maintained wooden houses, lots of flowers in the windows, and along the roads, and autumn colours providing the extra touch.
There is a red-brick bridge across the Venta River, just below the rapids. An old wooden town hall, from the 16th century, stands next to the more modern version. Another wooden house is claimed to be the oldest in what used to be Courland, Western Latvia. A park next to the river contains a sculpture collection, fairly conservative – truly communist popular art -, but nice enough. But that is not the point. The whole town, small as it is, is just a perfect little postcard for a medieval settlement. Admittedly, it may have been patched up a bit recently, as it got added to the UNESCO World Heritage list only this year.
Next: Sabile.
nice little, non-wooden corner building
the oldest house in Kuldiga, more a wooden barn, really
one of the streets in the centre highlights the efforts to acquire UNESCO World Heritage status
more old houses, in the main street
a large wooden house in the park
typical 1970/80s sculpture in the sculpture park of Kuldiga
like this one, too, a happy family
balcony with flowers
lots of plats decorate the streets, by now in attractive autumn colours
the red-brick bridge across the Venta River
