Town in Valmiera Municipality, Latvia
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Strenču psihoneiroloģiskā slimnīca
Built at the beginning of 20th century and has a beautiful park around it. The hospital buildings are a monument of architecture as well. It was common in the Russian Empire to build psychiatric hospitals on a grand scale. It is hard to say why such a hospital was built here, but a dozen brick buildings, decorated in white and red colours form bizarre assembly. The highlight of which is the water tower, built in 1907, combined with a chimney – completely unaccustomed, although it would seem that a pre-revolutionary boiler house is more than natural. Also pay attention to the fire station folded around the boulders of the same period.
The hospital has a museum, on prior arrangement. The rest of the area of the hospital serves as a city park and is accessible to everyone – there are no fences or any other signs of a strict regime here.
If you believe local information, this church was a wooden construction from 1907, and then in 1936 rebuilt in stone. From the outside it looks rather ordinary, but a closer look reveals that the shape of the building is completely uncanonical. It is a rectangular, and even extended by two chimneys above. The altar and the stained-glass windows belong to the same second half of the 1930s, pre-war period.
A narrow and reinforced concrete bridge on the road to Smiltene. It was built in 1909 and is recognized an architectural monument. The roadway is paved with cobblestone, but other parts of the bridge are still wooden.
The trail runs alongside the Gauja river in the Ziemeļgauja protected area.
In the central square, opposite the Tourist Information Centre. The only place in the city where you can eat.
Toilet, shower and kitchen are shared.
Strenču Viesu Nams
Place for up to 40 people. Continuously collects quite negative reviews due to the cold rooms, lack of breakfast and hot water, and internet problems.
The main road from Riga to Tartu in Estonia goes through Strenči centre. You can get here by bus or train from Riga.
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