Kazdanga manor

Jaunatnes gatve 1, Kazdanga

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The Kazdang manor complex (Katzdangen) has belonged to the very rich and politically influential Kurzeme barons Manteifelis for many generations. Kazdanga manors in the classicism style of the 19th century. was originally built by the famous Western European architect J. G. Berlitz. Currently, there is a museum in the castle building, where you can learn about the history of Kazdanga Parish and the exhibition of the Boju Forest Museum and the Kazdanga Tourism Information Point (TIP).

A park built around the Kazdanga manor, built in the 19th century. in the beginning as a landscape park with various walking paths, a system of separate walkways, benches and bridges. Currently, the Kazdanga manor park is one of the largest and dendrologically richest manor parks in Latvia in terms of area (196 ha). There are two circular crosses in the park, each on its own side of Dzirnezer. There are many ponds in the territory of the Kazdanga manor park, because Kazdanga was the first place in all of Tsarist Russia where pond farming began around 1870. The mill pond has also been floated on the Alokste river.