Museum sights in Sigulda
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Turaida Museum Reserve
The reserve's centrepiece is Turaida Castle, a red brick archbishops' castle founded in 1214 on the site of a Liv stronghold. It was blown up when lightning hit its gunpowder store in the 18th century. The restored castle is better viewed from afar, but a museum in the 15th-century granary offers an interesting account of the Livonian state from 1319 to 1561.
On the path between the castle and the road is the small wooden-spired Turaida Church, built in 1750 and housing a small history exhibition.
In the churchyard two lime trees shade the grave of the legendary Turaida Rose. The headstone bears the inscription 'Turaidas Roze 1601-1620' (Turaida means 'God's Garden' in an…
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