Metsa matkarada - Kuldiga and surrounding
Kuldiga and surrounding
Võluv Kuldīga vanalinn ja euroopa kõige laiem juga
Snēpele – Renda: 53 km, 2 päeva.
16.–17. sajandil oli Kuldīga Kuramaa ja Semgallia hertsogi Jacob Kettleri elukoht. Kettleri 40-aastase valitsusaja jooksul tegi piirkond läbi tõelise õitsengu. Kuldīga munakivitänavad, vanad hooned, läbi linna voolav Alekšupīte jõgi, Katariina kirik ja seal toimuvad orelikontserdid, gurmeerestoranid ja linnasüdames asuv kohaliku toidu poed meelitavad külalisi kaugemalt ja lähemalt nautima selle linna rahulikku atmosfääri. Linna maamärgiks on kujunenud punastest tellistest ehitatud sild üle Venta jõe. Venta jõel asub ka Euroopa kõige laiem juga – Venta juga laiusega u 100 meetrit. Kuna joa kõrgus on vaid 1,6–2,2 meetrit, võib siin kevaditi näha lendavaid kalu: vimbad hüppavad joast üles, et jõe ülemjooksule kudema suunduda. Kuldīga ümbruses laiuvad suured Kuramaa metsad.
Section 92. Snēpele – Kuldīga.
Venta valley and Riežupe Nature Park
Along the main street of Snēpele, the Forest Trail takes the road V1294 and after 0.3 km opposite Ķepšu lake turns right onto a small country road. Along this road, the Forest Trail bends to Slipiņciems, before crossing Sprincupe along the dam, where a pond has been created. Then the Forest Trail goes in the direction of Pelči. Nearby Pelči, the trail bends along Pelču Dambu ponds, leads to the Kuldīga–Pelču road (V1293) and further stretches through the Kuldīga garden areas – “Kurzemīte” and “Rumba”, until it reaches the Venta bank and the Kuldīga bypass. From there to the Old Brick Bridge, the Forest Trail for 2.4 km leads along a beautiful Venta coastal path, where there are wooden bridges and footbridges in wetter places and across streams town of Kurzeme.
Section 93. Kuldīga – Renda.
Venta valley and Riežupe Nature Park
After the Old Brick Bridge across the Venta river, the Forest Trail continues for a short time on the right bank of the Venta, notched by ravines, then, along Krasta street and Vetklīnika–Paleja road, it crosses Kalnmuiža forest and Riežupe and further up to Mazrenda continues along the roads of the vast Renda forest massif. The terrain is flat here, because this section is part of the Pieventa plain of the Kursa Lowland. In Mazrenda, the Forest Trail crosses a sand-gravel quarry and takes you to the centre of Renda along Kuldīgas street. The section belongs to the territory of the nature reserve “Ventas ieleja” and the nature park “Riežupe”.