Top Things to do in Kurzeme Region
Top Restaurants in Kurzeme Region
The 10 Best Budget-friendly Things to do in Kurzeme Region, Latvia
Discover the best top things to do in Kurzeme Region, Latvia including Children’s Town, Skede Dunes Memorial, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Venta Rapid Waterfall, Ventspils Museum, Irbene Radio Astronomy Center, Museum of the Kuldiga Region, Ventspils Beach, Northern Forts, Jurmalas Park.
Restaurants in Kurzeme Region
1. Children’s Town
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 68 reviews
Reviewed By Resort811339 - Ventspils, Latvia
Ventspils is famous for being family-friendly, and this park is a cool example. Interesting activities, a comfortable and large space, well-designed and maintained, it's just a serious effort to encourage active fun. I just wish my granddaughter lived nearby and could have a blast every day! Also, it's a short walk from other family-friendly attractions like an openair museum and the beach.
2. Skede Dunes Memorial
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 17 reviews
Reviewed By Hawk470 - Baltimore, United States
In the infamy that is the World War II Holocaust, the execution of thousands of Jewish women and children in the Skede dunes outside of Liepaja, Latvia in December 1941 by the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators, often with spectators watching, is perhaps the most well-documented. Photographs and film, along with eye-witness testimony, tell the story of horrific, cold-blooded slaughter at a personal level. These are unique individuals, people like you and me, being led to trenches dug into the beach and shot. Nearly all of pre-War Liepaja Jewish population of 9,000 along with many thousands more Roma, Latvian civilians and Soviet prisoners of war were murdered in and around Liepaja. In a few short months, in 1941, the heirs to the 150 year history of the Liepaja Jewish community were snuffed out. Located just inland from those dunes, a short drive from the city center, you will find a magnificent memorial to the murdered and the righteous few who saved some of the remnant. The memorial to the murdered, dedicated in 2005, takes the form of a stone menorah (Jewish candelabra) lying down on the beach. Along the walk in from the parking area, stone pillars commemorate the 26 Non-Jews of Liepaja recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” and the 135 in all of Latvia for having risked their lives and those of their relatives to save Jews during the Holocaust. At the entrance and along the path you will find inscribed stones in several languages describing the atrocities and the creation of the memorial. Just beyond the top of the menorah and the stones with Hebrew inscriptions representing the lit candles, you will see a small dune crowned by beach grass and beyond that the sand, the wind, and the waves rolling as they did during those dark, December days and as they had for millennia before and decades since. Nearby, you will also find an earlier Soviet-era memorial for the Soviet prisoners of war murdered there. We visited on an appropriately overcast autumn day when the winds for which Liepaja in known (“The City Where The Wind Is Born”) swept in with a chilling, light rain. Walking along the path of the Righteous and within and around the stone arms of the menorah, pelted by the rain, the range of what humans are capable of became frighteningly clear.
3. Holy Trinity Cathedral
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 71 reviews
4. Venta Rapid Waterfall
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 269 reviews
Reviewed By Amalta256 - Vilnius, Lithuania
One of the longest waterfall in europe. In summer you can walk trought it by stones. Impressive view also some swimming place near waterfall.
5. Ventspils Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 52 reviews
6. Irbene Radio Astronomy Center
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 26 reviews
Reviewed By Reok94
To get into the area where the radio telescopes are make sure you book a tour a few days in advance, we booked via e-mail! A great plus was that the tour was only for our small group! The tour guide was great, he had good English and seemed enthusiastic about the topic which made it more interesting for us! Make sure you ask questions! The guide took us inside one of the old radio telescope's legs whith an exhibition on history and what they are using the telescope's for now, then we had a chance to actually go up to and walk on the parabolic disk, then we went into a tunnel that connected two telescopes and then we took pictures near the working telescope! After the tour was over we went to the derelict city in the forest where they housed the 2000 people (workers and their families) who worked at the site during the Soviet era!
7. Museum of the Kuldiga Region
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 31 reviews
Reviewed By FishynDarla - Deopham, United Kingdom
Well what a great find, very interesting museum depicting the lives of a wealthy family in the 19th century. The staff were excellent and really took time to take us through the museum. The two ladies were extremely knowledgable, personable and had a sense of humour which made the visit all the more pleasant.
8. Ventspils Beach
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 201 reviews
Reviewed By 375justinasb - Ventspils, Latvia
Probably this is the best beach I have ever visited. Fantastic sand, a lot of entertainments fol children, really coolmplace for family!
9. Northern Forts
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 154 reviews
Reviewed By hteele - Tallinn, Estonia
Quite interesting place where you cant get a lot of different pictures and angels. Definitely worth a visit.
10. Jurmalas Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 96 reviews
Reviewed By maijao2018 - Riga, Latvia
Fantastic place for hiking, specious and beautiful park with old trees that leads to the dunes and white sand beach, where you may watch a spectacular sunset.
