The warm summer days lead to dreaming about where to spend the holidays. If you have been thinking about holidays by the sea, a beautiful urban environment with a gorgeous and lively old town, fragrant flowers, cultural and entertainment events, then we have an offer for you! Ventspils delights with summer novelties and events, invites you to visit tourist attractions and spend time by the sea and in nature with family and friends.

The long summer holidays are the right time to travel around Latvia and get to know the magic of county tourism. Ventspils Tourism Information Centre offers to get acquainted with the information about adventures and enjoyments of taste that can be experienced in Ventspils County.

SIA “Ventspils Alus Darītava” pub “COURLANDER” has been opened on January 5 at Tirgus Street 9 in Ventspils. This bar is special by the fact that it is located at the same building where the brewery is located, and visitors have the possibility to take a look at the process of brewing beer. The pub provides a possibility to buy and taste beer – COURLANDER lager Light and COURLANDER lager dark produced in the brewery, as well as different warm and cold snacks, including different fish dishes. “COURLANDER” beer is brewed according to “German Beer Purity Law” adopted in 1516, which states that beer must be produced using only 4 ingredients: barley malt, hops, water and yeast. Beer is unfiltered, it contains no preservatives and it is not pasteurised.

On Thursday, January 31, the winners of competition for the best catering and accommodation companies in 2018 were awarded at a formal ceremony at the Castle of the Livonian Order. This year’s competition surprised with new nominations and a special medieval mood at the awards ceremony. The awards at the ceremony were presented by Deputy Chairman of Ventspils City Council Didzis Ošenieks, however, the event’s wonderful atmosphere was maintained by the charismatic host Edvards Grieze.

The idea to open ferry traffic between Ventspils and Saaremaa this summer apparently will be postponed, because preparation works have delayed, as reported by Saaremaa newspaper “Saarte Haal”.

New tourism informative materials are available at Ventspils Tourism Information Centre (TIC) – tourism maps and brochures, which aim to introduce readers to the city’s news, the most popular objects and events in annual terms.

A wide range of recreation offers is available for active recreation enthusiasts in Ventspils – one of the most favourite active recreation places is nature trail of Būšnieku Lake. In order to implement information availability about the nature trail and its tourist attractions, it is possible to listen information about the nature trail as an audio on smart devices with the help of QR code.