Bauska Nature Park

Bauska Nature Park is a nature reserve in Mežotnes pagasts, Bauska Municipality. Bauska Nature Park is situated nearby to the locality Jumpravmuiža, as well as near the village Ziedoņi.

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Type: Nature reserve
Description: protected area in Latvia
Also known as: “Dabas parks „Bauska””

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bornsminde Manor and Mežotne palace.

Bornsminde Manor

Manor estate

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Bornsminde Manor is a manor house located in the Rundāle Parish of Rundāle Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia.

Mežotne palace

Manor estate

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Mežotne palace is a manor estate.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bauska and Mežotne.

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.

Mežotne

Village

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Mežotne is a village in the Mežotne Parish of Bauska Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia, 10 km west of Bauska and 40 km south of the capital of Latvia, Riga. It is located on the left bank of the Lielupe river near the Lithuanian border.

Saulaine

Village

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Saulaine is a village.