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EST EN Valmiera 107 kmGauja National Park RUS TOURISM CAMPAIGN 2018 | 20.07.–31.10. Riga LTU Valmiera Tourist Information Centre BLR Rīgas iela 10, Valmiera, LV-4201 +371 26332213, +371 64207177 [email protected] www.visit.valmiera.lv Kocēni Tourist Information Alejas iela 8, Kocēni, Kocēnu novads /visitvalmiera Centennial +371 28644530 [email protected] Burtnieki Tourist Valmiermuiža Tourist Information Point Information Point Jaunatnes iela 15, Burtnieki Dzirnavu iela 2, Valmiermuiža, Burtnieku novads Burtnieku novads +371 25770008 +371 20264269 VALMIERA.treasures KOCĒNI. BURTNIEKI. BEVERĪNA [email protected] [email protected] Tours in Valmiera and the surrounding municipalities Applying for tours: +371 26332213 or [email protected] The Valmiera audio guide in ve languages LV, RU, EN, DE, EE +371 25440011 Call the toll free automatic telephone line and nd out more about Valmiera! Valmiera bus terminal, Stacijas iela 1, +371 90006677 (call charge EUR 0.50) www.vtu-valmiera.lv Train station “Valmiera”, Stacijas laukums 1, AS “Pasažieru vilciens” www.pv.lv Taxi services, SIA “VTU Valmiera” - Stacijas iela 1, Valmiera +371 80000221 Information service 1188, www.1188.lv Published by: Valmiera City Council, 2018 Photos: From the archives of Valmiera City Council, Kocēni, Burtnieki, Beverīna Municipalities, Santa Paegle, Armands Miķelsons (aero photo), and respective tourism enterprises SUGGESTIONS FOR GEOCACHING ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN Find the right place make sure you’re not being watched find the cache once again make sure nobody is watching you Valmiera Tourist Information Centre in cooperation with Kocēni, register in the journal (make it readable!) don’t forget to make sure Burtnieki and Beverīna Municipalities invites to take part in the you’re not being watched cover it, if necessary if somebody is tourism campaign “Centennial treasures”! watching you, but you still want to register the cache, use a divertive strategy to distract them or pretend that you still are looking for it in another place. In honour of Latvia’s Centennial, we invite you to travel around Valmiera and its vicinity, in search for the hidden “treasures”, which appear as the words of power for ourselves and Latvia. TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CAMPAIGN, Tourism campaign “Centennial treasures” follows the principles and rules YOU NEED: established by the worldwide known game Geocaching (geolocation To receive a brochure and find at least 10 out of 20 caches included game, also known as Cache). You can search for the hidden treasures by in the campaign; finding their coordinates on www.geachching.com or by following the To fill in the brochure by describing the “treasure” or the word of clues and hints given in the tourism brochure on how to find them. power you found in each cache; Your task at the campaign is to find “treasures” or words of powers in popular sightseeing places and objects. Geocaches can be identified as To be at least 12 years old; boxes or capsules, in which you will find a pencil, a notebook and some If you are a registered user at Geocaching, please register your findings items that can be exchanged. on www.geocaching.com as well. FOR YOUR ATTENTION! ADDITIONAL RULES: While looking for a geocache, try not to attract to yourself attention of There are four QR code questions given in the brochure; people around you. We encourage you to look for them while no one is Scan the QR code that you will find in a cache (requires a QR-code looking at you. This way you will make sure that a geocache remains reader on a smartphone that can be downloaded from the Google Play hidden for others; Store or the App Store); The hidden answer in the QR code must be written in the brochure of After you have found it, please put it back exactly where you found it. the campaign; Not next to it or in a seemingly better place! Each geocache has precise coordinates and only the person which initially put it there can change To participate in the campaign, additional task is optional, but the correct answers to QR Code questions (randomly chosen) will be the location by also changing the information in the Geocaching awarded with nice surprise awards. website; If you have fullled the requirements, please deliver the brochure in After finding a geocache, please register in the journal (write your name person or send it by post (postmarked November 1) to the Valmiera or Geocaching nickname and the date you found it). Everyone has to Tourist Information Centre (Rīgas iela 10, Valmiera, LV-4201) by Novem- register in the journal who wants to qualify for the prizes. For example, ber 1, 2018 (incl.). a family can participate in the campaign as one applicant with a If the cache is missing and you cannot find it, please inform us through common name, or each member of the family separately with different www.geocaching.com or get in touch with the Valmiera Tourist Information names. Participants from the age of 12 can participate in the campaign; Centre by e-mail or telephone numbers indicated on the back cover of the brochure! If you take something for the geocache, please remember to put The campaign will end on November 10, 2018, when lucky winners will be something back in exchange; randomly chosen and will receive prizes from tourism enterprises in Valmiera and Kocēni, Burtnieki and Beverīna Municipalities. We will get in touch with It is forbidden to leave food, used lottery tickets, cigarettes or any trash the lucky winners afterwards. in the boxes or capsules. We encourage not to put items that can be affected by moisture, as the boxes and capsules are not sealed and water resistant; Main prize – tourism class The campaign Please note that any food items left in the boxes and capsules, bicycle! is supported particularly the ones hidden in forests, can attract wild animals, which by Valmiera can dig out and damage the container; City Council, Kocēni, Burtnieki, Beverīna Travelbugs and geocoins are items with a unique ID. If you are a Municipalities and tourism enterprises. beginner and you are not sure if you will enjoy this game, we suggest not taking them. However, if you do, please register them on www.geocaching.com. When you find the next cache, please leave it there. By no means keep it by yourself, as the purpose of these items is to be moved from one place to another. 3. Krāču kakts (Corner of the Rapids) The trail from the rowing base "Krāces" (Rapids), Kāpu iela 15 VALMIERA In the Goat Rapids rowing slalom track, which was built in 1969, often can be seen excitement 1. Ģīme Nature Trail and persistence of both young Ģīme Mill Pond, the trail starts from L. Paegles street and experienced athletes, but the Gauja River also keeps Since 2018 the Ģīme River memories of earlier sporty floodgates near Leona Paegles events – swimming, rowing and street mark not only the diving competitions during the first “Gauja Festival” in 1937. There is a beginning of the Mill Pond, but rowing sports base built next to the Goats’ Rapids in 1986, as well as a also the natural cognitive trail. The secured and well-fitted left bank of the Gauja River, where a quiet boardwalk and viewing platforms walking trail leads to the Vanšu Bridge. with interactive stands and 48 different fish and aquatic Hint to nd the cache: poplar. GPS: N57.53355 E25.43107 organisms provide an insight into Write the “treasure” (the word the life of the Ģīme River and the of power form the cache) here: Mill Pond. At the end of the boardwalk, in accordance with the principles QR code question: What does the boy do with the third coin? of universal design, a boat dock is built. There near the Nature Trail is Write the QR code answer placed an open-door class of training in fresh air. here (optional task): Hint to nd the cache: ant road, under. GPS: N57.53317° E25.40591° 4. Railway Station Water Towers Pleskavas iela 10 Write the “treasure” (the word For the water towers of the of power form the cache) here: railway station the Valmierians have once given meaningful names – Waterhead (Ūdensgalva) 2. Great Willow of Pauls Valdens and Feinshmeker (Feinšmekers). Brenguļu iela between P.Valdena iela and Baiļi In a newspaper article “Valmierietis” is reported: “Although the Paula Valdena Street in Valmiera, difference between the two named after the great chemist, water towers of Valmiera railway the first Rector of the University station after passports is a half-century, that senior lowest still pleases of Latvia. Families of both with its romance, while the tallest, silicate palest, is absolutely nothing”. professor’s parents come from Hexagonal red brick water tower was built at the end of the 19th century the neighbourhood of Valmiera: and was used for the needs of the railway water supply. mother from Matīši, father from Hint to nd the cache: acacia. GPS: N57.52338° E25.44192° Ēvele parish. P.Valdens has been Write the “treasure” (the word nominated for a Nobel Prize of power form the cache) here: several times. Now this street leads to the largest Valmiera company - 5. Dalin’s Beach JSC "Valmieras stikla šķiedra" (Valmiera Fiberglass). Jāņa Daliņa iela 6 One of the most popular places to Hint to nd the cache: under. GPS: N57.53069° E25.45214° relax in summer for the residents of Valmiera is named after the outstanding Latvian athlete - race Write the “treasure” (the word walker Jānis Daliņš. In the 1932 of power form the cache) here: Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, Daliņš won the silver medal - the first Olympic medal won by a Latvian athlete under the Latvian flag.

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