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FACT FILE OF DAUGAVPILS

Average weather during the championship period
November: Avg low: -2°  Avg hi: 2°
December: Avg low: -5°  Avg hi: -2°

SIGHTSEEING

Daugavpils Fortress, Daugavpils Rothko Art Center, Church Hill, Andrejs Pumpurs Public Garden, Daugavpils University Public Garden, Sundial, Dubrovin Park, Daugavpils Regional Studies and Art Museum are some of the favourite tourist destinations to visit within Daugavpils.

TOURISM INFORMATION
Daugavpils Tourism Information Centre
Rigas iela 22a, tel: +371 542 28 18, fax: +371 542 28 18
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ABOUT  DAUGAVPILS

Daugavpils is Latvia’s second largest city (116 000 inhabitants), and is situated about 230 km south-east of Riga, along the Lithuanian and Belarusian borders.

The city was established around the Dinaburg Fortress, built by the Livonian Order of German Knights in 1275. Daugavpils developed on the crossroads of various cultures and religions. For centuries, it was ruled by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and later the Russian Empire took control.

Over the centuries, city development was strongly influenced by large Russian Old Believer and Jewish populations. During the 18-19th centuries many Jewish people were deported to the Russian Empire borders. Now, Daugavpils is primarily a Russian city as the remaining old Jewish families were killed during Word War II.

Daugavpils is a spacious, green city with a delightfully provincial charm. Despite its quaint atmosphere and low prices, the city possesses fully modern services. Over the last decade an ice-hall, bowling centre, diverse entertainment centres and up-to-date hotels have been built.