European kultūras mantojuma dienas 2017

The events of the European Heritage Days will be held every year during the second weekend of September. This year the events will take place in sixty places throughout Latvia.
Due to the geographical location of Latvia, events that are important not only for the people of this land but also for the whole of the Baltic and Europe have been dealt with in its territory over the years and hundreds. In order to fully cover all material cultural heritage, a special typological group is established in the Latvian cultural monument protection system – historical events sites that include territories, buildings and other objects related to significant historical events or significant persons in Latvia. This group of cultural monuments is perhaps most likely to show that cultural heritage is a story of us, the quality of human life, the scale of values, it is a conversation about the future of humanity.
This year's European Heritage Day programme calls for the opening of places that report the events of various times in the territory of Latvia: evidence of the arrival of the first population in the territory of Latvia in the camps of the Dviete stone age, the castles and the ornament palace, the significant developments, as the Battle of Durbes, the 1917 battle against the small Juglas, the 1863 Polish uprising in Vilaka Manor, the activities of the Central Council of Latvia in Ventspils.
The events will also be able to explore the inheritance of a considerable personality, which inspires today – in Turaida, the anniversary of the death of Kaupo, the contributions of the Borhu family, will be able to follow the story of Raina and Aspazia, in the Scripts, Andreja Uplash 140 anniversary, while the Asian Lake-Palace will remember the formation of its reconstruction and the contribution of the archaeologist John's apala. The events will also take place in major places such as the Rinkēvičs' Meeting House, the Adam steel-led Valka Latvian teacher seminar building, Academia Petrina building in Jelgava, Cēsis District School, Salaspils memorial.
The European Heritage Days are a thematic programme of cultural events designed by the owners of heritage sites, enthusiasts and specialists, aimed at bringing people closer to cultural heritage by raising awareness of the protection of monuments – the diversity of protected monuments, the identification of values, preservation, as well as cultural heritage as a resource for sustainable development. They have started in 1984 in France as open-door historic monuments and have become a joint initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Commission since 1999, involving 50 countries that have acceded to the European cultural convention.
European Year of Cultural Heritage Riga, Kurzeme, Latgales, Vidzeme and Zemgale in regions. The events of the European Heritage Days are free of charge if any additional activity is for payment, as indicated in the programme of measures. The European Heritage Days in Latvia take place within the framework of the Latvian national centenary programme with financial support from the State Culture Capital Fund.