Today Cesis is home to the Latvian's oldest breweries. It's a major beer festival every year in july. There is interesting, good enough preserved old town part, with St. John church, which dates back to 1287. Cesis castle was founded by the knights of the Sword in 1209. A little town, some 60 Km.
Castle looks very impressive.
Daugavpils Latvian second biggest city, some 220 km. from Riga. An industial center of eastern Latvia , it doesn't have a lot of sites to see, or to visit, except it's huge fortress , which was built by russians in 1810. The city itself is predominauntly a drab soviet creation, which gives you view of another side of Baltic's reality. Trains which run between Warsaw, Vilnius and St. Petersburg in Russia, cross throw Daugavpils. Rundale Palace Rundale Palace is an architectural pearl of Latvia created by an outstanding architect Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, designer of the Winter Palace in St.