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Liepaja travel guide, guidebook and phrasebooks, download .pdf chapters on Lonely Planet.
Liepaja (Latvian: Liepāja; German: Libau; Russian: Лиепая), historical variant: Libau, is a city in western Latvia on the Baltic sea and the administrative center of Liepaja district. It is the largest city in the Kurzeme Region of Latvia, the third largest city in Latvia after Riga and Daugavpils and an important ice-free port. As of 1 January 2010 Liepaja had a population of about 83000. Liepaja is a planned city, its structure was constructed to resemble a moth. Liepaja is a rich on a different architecture styles: wooden houses, Jugendstil building, Soviet-era apartments and a lot of green parks are characteristic for Liepaja. The main area of interest for the tourists are the city center with many churches, Seaside park with white sandy beaches and Karosta, which is the northern suburb, in the past it was used as a secret military encampment; today it's the major place for tourist attraction. Other areas of interest for tourists are VecLiepaja, Ezerkrasts, which is close to Liepaja lake and Karosta beaches with scenically blasted forts. Liepaja has a railway connection to Jelgava and Riga and through them to the rest of Latvia's railway network. There is one passenger station in the New town, but the railway extends further and links to the port. There is also a northward railway track leading to Ventspils, but in recent decades it has fallen in disuse for economic reasons. The railway provides the main means of delivering cargo to the port. The Port of Liepaja has a wide water area and consists of three main parts. The Winter harbor is located in the Trade channel and serves for the small local fishing vessels as well as medium cargo ships. Immediately north of the Trade channel is the main area of the port separated from the open sea by a line of breakwaters. This part of the port can accept large ships and ferry lines ... more on Wikipedia.The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply.
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