Vairogmiests

Vairogmiests is a forest in Bauska Municipality, Latvia. Vairogmiests is situated nearby to the suburb Elektriķi, as well as near the village Lepšas.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bauska castle museum and Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit.

Bauska castle museum

Museum

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Bauska Castle is a complex consisting of the ruins of an earlier castle and a later palace on the outskirts of the Latvian city of Bauska. While originally a hill fort, the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights built the castle in the fifteenth century, the palace was added in the sixteenth century, and restoration began in the nineteenth century.

Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit

Church

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Church of the Holy Spirit is a Lutheran church and the oldest existing building in Bauska, Latvia. Built between 1591 and 1594 for the needs of the city's Baltic German population.

St. George’s Church, Bauska

Church

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St. George's Church is a Latvian Orthodox church in Bauska, Latvia. In 1876 czarist authorities gifted a plot of land to the local Orthodox community which was established in 1856 and by 1881 numbered 95 people.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bauska and Saulaine.

Bauska

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Bauska is a town in Zemgale, 66 km from Riga and 20 km from the Lithuanian border, at the confluence of the Mūsa and Mēmele rivers where they form the Lielupe river.