On December 5, event “Export and Innovation Award 2024” was held at Riga Castle, organized for the 19th time by the Latvian Investment and Development Agency (LIAA) to motivate the growth of companies, state and municipal institutions. This year`s award in nomination “The most export-capable new tourism product in a group of associations, foundations, planning regions or municipal institutions” travels to Latgale – Centre of Technics and Industrial design “Engineering arsenal” becomes the winner in this category!
From from 29th November to 5th December, everyone is invited to take part in the events taking place in our city.
At 4 p.m. on Friday, 29 November, the Rothko Museum will launch its winter season, closing the year with six profoundly moving exhibitions.
Christmas season in Daugavpils will begin soon! On November 30th the first candle in the big Advent wreath will be lit, and on December 1st the main Christmas tree will be illuminated with colourful lights on the main square.
The Rothko Museum invites artists to apply to its 2025 symposium programme, which will feature four major international events in painting, graphics, and ceramics.
LLC “Daugavpils satiksme” offers a unique opportunity – a trip around Daugavpils on a retro tram, which was manufactured in the middle of the 20th century at the Riga Carriage Works.
Since 8 September 2023, the 7th bastion casemate of the Daugavpils Fortress is officially available in its new function – as an open-storage chamber for contemporary ceramics from the Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre (soon-to-be museum) collection.
Daugavpils offers a wide range of recreation and leisure opportunities, visits to the city museums, cultural institutions and natural sites during the summer tourist season. Daugavpils is a dog friendly city, so residents and guests of Daugavpils can visit sightseeing with their four-legged pets.
Winter has arrived! It’s the perfect time to warm up, relax and unwind your body with warming spa treatments. Daugavpils will have something to offer on cold winter evenings!
Latvia has become one more long-distance hiking route richer – the 1070-kilometre “Ezertaka” in Latgale is marked out and available for free to anyone who likes to hike on different distances.
Less than a month short of Christmas, the year’s most beautiful holiday season, we are looking for special gifts for our most special people.
Tourist brochures “From Kaunas to Daugavpils along the old postal route” are available at Daugavpils Tourist Information Centre (TIC). They introduce readers to the historical tourist route and invite to take a trip along the old postal route connecting Daugavpils and Kaunas.
