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Merry Christmas!

We are sending a tiny bit of the white snow that usually relates to White Christmas. We wish you to find the true Christmas feeling that 's inside each of us.
Enjoy the blissful moments with your dearest celebrating the year's most inspiring festival and gathering the strength for the forthcoming challenging new year!
Lots of creative ideas throughout 2009 ! Best wishes to you and your families:)

FOR FUN

WELCOME TO MY COUNTRY

OLD RIGA

The visit to Alcamo

LATVIA

Latvia is located in Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania.

Latvia has borders with Belarus for 141km, Estonia for 339km, Lithuania for 453km and Russia for 217km.

Land in Latvia is low plain.

Latvian land covers an area of 64589 square kilometers which is slightly larger than West Virginia

As for the Latvian climate; maritime; wet, moderate winters.

Latvian(s) speak Latvian (official) 58.2%, Russian 37.5%, Lithuanian and other 4.3% (2000 census).

Town Preili.

PREIļI


Regional centre and town of Preiļi are 206 km from Riga in the Southeast area of Latvia. The region has 84 lakes and the area of the city is 5 square km. The present surrounding area of the town is one of the earliest settled places in Latvia. First time the name of Preiļi appears in the historic annuals of 1348.
A special place in the history of Preiļi belongs to the aristocratic family of Count Borch who left to the town a building complex, a romantic park and a castle. The park is one of the most significant landscaped parks in Latvia. The town’s coat of arms possibly the Borch family crest – on a golden field a black raven with its head turned to the right - symbolises wisdom, courage and power. Preiļi became a town in 1928.
Now Preiļi is not only a quiet provincial town, but also the centre of a picturesque region where the appealing traditions of Latgale’s culture, folklore and Roman Catholicism have been preserved.