Cesis
Cesis is a small country town with a reconstructed medieval castle. From the returning Livonian crusader knights in the 13th century to the 20th century Latvian War of Independence, Cesis has a long colourful & bloody history – not to mention what the Russian Ivan IV, “The Terrible” in the 16th century got up to!
Whatever the history, it was fun wandering round the battlements.
Cesis Castle
The Freedom Monument commemorating those fallen in the War of Independence 1918-1920. The Russians destroyed the original replacing it with a statue of Lenin in the 1950’s. Once the Russians left in the 1990’s, the original monument was soon replaced.
