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The upgraded exhibition “The End of the War in Kurzeme” opened in Ezere Customs House

 The upgraded exhibition “The End of the War in Kurzeme” was officially opened on 13

Military heritage map

 Visiting Latvia and Estonia you have access to military heritage locations such as museums, military

Co-operation with domestic and other European countries’ military history international organisations and enthusiasts successfully continues

  Within the framework of its project “Military Heritage”, the Kurzeme Planning Region continues cooperation

New edition – military heritage tourism brochure and map in Kurzeme tourism information centers

  In May 2021, starting the tourist season, we offer travelers a new and exciting

A new military heritage site in Ventspils

  On April 23, 2021, at the beginning of the tourist season, the tower of

Unique pictures from the time of the 1991 barricades in Riga published

The Latvian Embassy in Germany has created a virtual exhibition on the website https://freiheit-1991.de/, which also

Call to send in military stories related with Kurzeme

Military secrets are always and at all times carefully kept and hidden. Such stories, human

An engaging video has been made as part of the Military Heritage project

One of the current projects of the Kurzeme planning region is “Military Heritage” and we

The partners of the project “Military Heritage” meet for the first time in person in Ventspils

On September 15 and 16, the Kurzeme Planning Region in Ventspils hosted the partners of

Survey of Kurzeme Military objects within the Military Heritage project. First conclusions

Surveys of objects, battlefields, former military bases, buildings and museums in Kurzeme for the creation

Co-operation with domestic and other European countries’ military history enthusiasts has been started

Within the framework of its project “Military Heritage”, the Kurzeme Planning Region has started cooperation

Project “Military Heritage”

This year Kurzeme planning region (KPR) has successfully started as a partner an other unique

The Military Heritage tourism product project – Military Heritage – was launched with an online meeting of partners

This year, continuing the diversification of the tourism offer in Kurzeme, we have successfully launched

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 Objectives

  • to develop and promote 1 joint cross-border Military Heritage tourism product integrating new and existing individual military heritage tourism objects in Estonia and Latvia,
  • to develop 1 cross-border network for functioning, further development, and promotion of the product,
  • to improve 36 sites – military heritage tourism objects.

 Implementation period
01.01.2020. – 28.02.2023.

 Financing
€  1 928 992,39 (including funding of the European Regional Development Fund  € 289 348,86)

 Project manager
Jana Kalve                                                          +371 29524558
+371 67331634
jana.kalve@kurzemesregions.lv

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