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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"Latvia's second city, in the far east: an enormous tsarist fortress that people still live in, a Mark Rothko centre inside it, and four faiths on one hill.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304380","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"1810 | When construction of the fortress began\r\n1903 | Mark Rothko born here, as Markus Rotkovics\r\n4 | Faiths with churches on Church Hill","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"A border city that has belonged to several countries","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Daugavpils is Latvia's second city, sits in the far south-east near both the Lithuanian and Belarusian borders, and has been Polish, Swedish, Russian, Soviet and Latvian at various points. It is majority Russian-speaking and feels distinctly different from Riga.\r\n\r\nThe fortress is the thing. Construction began in 1810 to hold back Napoleon, it was never seriously attacked, and it survives as one of the most complete early nineteenth-century fortresses in Europe \u2014 ramparts, moats, gates and a full grid of barracks and officers' housing inside. People live in it. It is a functioning residential district that happens to be a military fortification.\r\n\r\nInside its arsenal building is the Mark Rothko Art Centre. Rothko was born here in 1903 as Markus Rotkovics and left at ten; the centre holds a small group of original works, lent by his family, and is the only place in eastern Europe where you can see them.\r\n\r\nChurch Hill has Catholic, Lutheran, Orthodox and Old Believer churches within sight of each other, which says a good deal about the city.\r\n\r\nOne or two days.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | Train from Riga about 3 hours, around \u20ac10. Buses similar\r\nGetting around | The centre is walkable. Trams about \u20ac0.70\r\nCurrency | Euro\r\nLanguage | Russian is the majority language here. Latvian is official, English is limited\r\nThe fortress | Free to walk. It is a residential district, not a monument\r\nRothko Centre | About \u20ac10. Closed Mondays \u2014 check before travelling","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"A grid-planned centre with the fortress a short ride north-west.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"13","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"City centre | First-timers | The nineteenth-century grid around Rigas iela: shops, restaurants, Church Hill and most beds. | 55.8750 | 26.5360 |  | \nNear the fortress | Quiet and unusual | North-west: guesthouses in and around the fortress district, beside the Rothko Centre. | 55.8810 | 26.4990 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Walk the fortress. It is free, it is enormous, and it is inhabited \u2014 you walk through a working residential district laid out on a military grid, past barracks blocks that are now flats, along ramparts and over moats. The scale takes an hour or two to absorb and very few people are ever there.\r\n\r\nThe Mark Rothko Art Centre, about \u20ac10, sits inside the fortress arsenal. It holds original Rothko works on loan from his family alongside contemporary exhibitions, and it is the only place in eastern Europe showing his originals. It closes on Mondays.\r\n\r\nChurch Hill is a short walk from the centre and holds a Catholic basilica, a Lutheran church, an Orthodox cathedral and an Old Believer prayer house within a few hundred metres. All are free.\r\n\r\nThe Daugava riverbank and the embankment walk below the fortress are free and quiet.\r\n\r\nThen look at the city itself \u2014 the centre is a coherent nineteenth-century brick grid, with art nouveau details scattered through it, largely unrestored and genuinely unvisited.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"The fortress | Free, enormous, and still lived in\r\nRothko Art Centre | About \u20ac10, in the arsenal. Closed Mondays\r\nChurch Hill | Free. Four faiths within a few hundred metres\r\nThe brick centre | Free, unrestored and almost unvisited","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_free_body":"The fortress is free and open \u2014 ramparts, gates, moats and the whole residential grid inside.\r\n\r\nChurch Hill is free, with all four buildings open to visitors at ordinary hours and modest dress expected.\r\n\r\nThe Daugava embankment below the fortress is free and gives the best view of the walls from outside.\r\n\r\nRigas iela, the pedestrian main street, and the nineteenth-century brick centre around it cost nothing to walk.\r\n\r\nThe city's Soviet-era mosaics and murals survive in places and are free to find, which is the kind of thing Daugavpils does better than anywhere else in Latvia.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"The fortress | Free, and the main reason to come\r\nChurch Hill | Four faiths, all free to enter\r\nThe embankment | Free, with the fortress walls above\r\nSoviet-era mosaics | Scattered through the city and free to find","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Cheaper than Riga, with a strong Russian and Belarusian influence reflecting who lives here.\r\n\r\nA main is \u20ac6 to \u20ac12, and the market does considerably less.\r\n\r\nPelmeni, borscht, blini and pickled everything sit alongside Latvian rye bread and grey peas, which is the honest picture of eastern Latvia.\r\n\r\nThe central market is the best cheap eating and where the city shops.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac2.50 to \u20ac4, and local kvass \u2014 the fermented rye drink, mildly alcoholic at most \u2014 is sold from tanks in summer.\r\n\r\nMenus are often in Latvian and Russian, with English less common than in Riga.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"A main | \u20ac6\u201312, less at the market\r\nRussian and Belarusian influence | Pelmeni, borscht, blini\r\nA beer | \u20ac2.50\u20134\r\nMenus | Latvian and Russian. English is limited","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Limited. This is a city of about eighty thousand with a handful of bars, mostly along and around Rigas iela.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac2.50 to \u20ac4 and cocktails \u20ac5 to \u20ac8.\r\n\r\nThere is a university and term time brings a student crowd, but nobody travels here for the evening.\r\n\r\nThe Rothko Centre runs occasional events and concerts, and the city has a theatre, which is realistically the cultural programme.\r\n\r\nIf you want a night out in Latvia, it is in Riga, three hours west. Daugavpils is for the fortress and the daylight hours.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Limited | A handful of bars on Rigas iela\r\nCheap | Beer \u20ac2.50\u20134, cocktails \u20ac5\u20138\r\nNot a night-out city | Come for the fortress\r\nRiga | Three hours west, for a real night","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"The centre is a walkable grid and Church Hill is ten minutes from it.\r\n\r\nTrams cost around \u20ac0.70 and are the way to reach the fortress, which is a few kilometres north-west of the centre \u2014 a tram and a short walk, or a cheap taxi.\r\n\r\nTrains from Riga take about three hours and cost around \u20ac10, several times a day. Buses are similar.\r\n\r\nDaugavpils sits close to both the Lithuanian and Belarusian borders. Vilnius is about three hours by bus. The Belarusian border is nearby but crossing there is not a routine tourist matter \u2014 check current entry requirements and your own foreign ministry's advice before considering it.\r\n\r\nWithin Latvia, this is the far end of the country and journeys are longer than the map suggests.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Trams about \u20ac0.70 | And how you reach the fortress\r\nRiga | Three hours by train, about \u20ac10\r\nVilnius | About three hours by bus\r\nThe Belarusian border | Nearby, and not a routine crossing. Check guidance","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Daugavpils costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"The cheapest city in Latvia. Beds are \u20ac9 to \u20ac22, a main \u20ac6 to \u20ac12, and a beer \u20ac2.50 to \u20ac4.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac25 to \u20ac45.\r\n\r\nThe fortress, Church Hill and the city centre are free, and the Rothko Centre at about \u20ac10 is the only real entry.\r\n\r\nCarry some cash. Cards work in the centre but less reliably than in Riga, and the market and smaller places prefer cash.\r\n\r\nLatvia uses the euro, so there is no exchange involved and prices are directly comparable with the rest of the country.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Bed | \u20ac9\u201322\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac25\u201345\r\nThe fortress is free | And it is the reason to come\r\nCarry cash | Cards are less reliable than in Riga","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Daugavpils is a safe city and crime against visitors is low.\r\n\r\nThe fortress needs some judgement. It is a residential district rather than a museum \u2014 people live in the barracks blocks, hang washing and go about their day. Walk it as you would any neighbourhood, and photograph buildings rather than residents or their windows.\r\n\r\nParts of the fortification are unrestored, with crumbling brickwork, unfenced drops from the ramparts and overgrown moats. Stay on the obvious routes and keep off the walls.\r\n\r\nWinter here is colder than Riga \u2014 this is inland eastern Latvia \u2014 with ice on pavements and short days.\r\n\r\nThe Belarusian border is close. Do not approach or attempt to cross it casually, and check current guidance before any plan involving it.\r\n\r\nEmergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"The fortress is inhabited | Photograph buildings, not residents\r\nUnrestored sections | Crumbling brick and unfenced drops from the ramparts\r\nColder than Riga | Inland, with ice and short winter days\r\nThe Belarusian border | Close by. Not somewhere to approach casually","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"Lakes, a pottery region and two borders.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Vilnius, Lithuania | 3 hours | Bus, \u20ac10\u201315 | A different country, and closer from here than Riga is to some of Latvia. |  | 1304455","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May to September. Winter is colder and darker than the coast.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. Daugavpils is inland and continental, so it runs several degrees colder than Riga in winter and warmer in summer \u2014 the fortress under snow is genuinely striking, if you are dressed for minus ten.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | -4 | 2 | Cold, snowy and dark. Cheapest\r\nFebruary | -3 | 2 | The coldest month. Very quiet\r\nMarch | 3 | 2 | Cold but brightening\r\nApril | 11 | 3 | Thaw. Quiet and grey\r\nMay | 18 | 5 | Excellent. Green, warm and empty\r\nJune | 21 | 5 | The best month. Long light and the lakes usable\r\nJuly | 23 | 5 | Warmest. Lakes and the fortress at their best\r\nAugust | 22 | 5 | Warm. The Aglona pilgrimage mid-month\r\nSeptember | 17 | 4 | Good value. Mild and quiet\r\nOctober | 10 | 3 | Autumn and cooling\r\nNovember | 3 | 2 | Dark and grey. The hardest month\r\nDecember | -3 | 2 | Cold and dark, with snow on the fortress","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"A pilgrimage in August and a quiet city the rest of the year.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/latvia\/daugavpils\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Aglona pilgrimage | 15 August | Aglona, an hour away | Latvia's main Catholic pilgrimage, drawing tens of thousands to the basilica for the Assumption. |  | \nRothko Centre exhibitions | Year-round | The fortress arsenal | Rotating contemporary shows alongside the permanent Rothko originals. Closed Mondays. |  | \nCity Festival | Summer | Citywide | The city's own days, with music and events across the centre. |  | \nJani (midsummer) | 23\u201324 June | Countrywide | Bonfires and all-night celebrations, with the city emptying to the lakes. |  | \nLake season | June to August | Latgale | When the eastern lake district is warm enough for swimming. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros \u2014 Latvia uses them.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"Latvia is in the eurozone, so these are the prices you will pay. The shoestring doing line is zero because the fortress costs nothing.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0\r\nMiddle of the road | 18 | 15 | 2 | 10\r\nComfortable | 34 | 26 | 4 | 18","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A very small scene, mostly guesthouses in the centre and near the fortress. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Daugavpils","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/latvia\/daugavpils\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Daugavpils travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"What is the fortress like? | Enormous, almost complete, and inhabited. Construction began in 1810 to hold back Napoleon and it was never seriously attacked, so the ramparts, moats, gates and the full grid of barracks survive. People live in those barracks now \u2014 it is a working residential district rather than a monument, and it is free to walk.\r\nWhy is there a Rothko centre here? | Because Mark Rothko was born in this city in 1903 as Markus Rotkovics, and left for the United States at ten. The centre occupies the fortress arsenal and holds original works lent by his family \u2014 the only place in eastern Europe where you can see them. About \u20ac10, and closed on Mondays.\r\nIs it worth the three-hour trip from Riga? | For one or two days, if the fortress or Rothko interest you. It is the cheapest city in Latvia, almost entirely unvisited, and completely different in character from Riga \u2014 majority Russian-speaking, inland, and shaped by five different states having governed it.\r\nDo I need Russian? | It helps. Russian is the majority language here, Latvian is official, and English is noticeably less common than in Riga. Menus are usually in Latvian and Russian.\r\nWhat is Church Hill? | A short walk from the centre where a Catholic basilica, a Lutheran church, an Orthodox cathedral and an Old Believer prayer house stand within a few hundred metres of each other. All are free to enter, and together they explain the city's history better than any museum here.\r\nHow should I behave in the fortress? | As you would in any neighbourhood, because that is what it is. Residents hang washing and go about their day among the ramparts. Photograph the buildings and the fortifications rather than people, their windows or their yards.\r\nIs it near Belarus? | Yes, the border is close. That is not a routine crossing for visitors and you should not approach or attempt it casually \u2014 check current entry requirements and your own foreign ministry's advice before any plan involving it.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Daugavpils guesthouses and hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. Then meet the people already there in the app.","hw_hub_city_cta_buttons":"Find hostels in Daugavpils | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/latvia\/daugavpils\/\r\nGet the app | https:\/\/hostelworld.onelink.me\/IdiK\/f5a50nhd","hw_hub_city_newsletter_title":"Get the good stuff monthly","hw_hub_city_newsletter_body":"New city guides, deals and route ideas. 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