{"id":10593,"date":"2012-08-19T08:44:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T06:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2012-08-18T23:48:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T21:48:06","slug":"travel-guide-ogre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeus.aegee.org\/magazine\/2012\/08\/19\/travel-guide-ogre\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel guide Ogre"},"content":{"rendered":"

A small and beautiful town called Ogre is located almost in the middle of Latvia. Ogre? Yes, you understood correctly. But nothing to worry \u2013 there are no monsters or cannibals in the town as you could misunderstand by the name. On the contrary, it is a very peaceful town. The only thing that could give a cause to think about the monsters is a vide forest all around the city and Ogre\u2019s Blue Mountains, but no monster has ever been seen there. Maybe someone has seen strayed Latvian blue cow in Ogre\u2019s region, but that is another story.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In fact, Ogre city\u2019s name is closely related to the river Ogre and there are several legends about its name. In past times, there used to be a lot of eels in the river Ogre. And one legend says that the name of the river (from which this town could derive its name) is Russian origin (\u0443\u0433\u0440\u0438<\/em>[ugri], meaning eels). And the legend says that Catherine the Great of Russia was the one who gave the river this name. The last indication to why the Ogre has this particular name could bet thanks to the railway station, which name was Oger.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1861, Ogre started to develop and became popular as a rest area, especially after Riga \u2013 Daugavpils railway construction started. It was also time when the first recreational centre was built there. Besides, also business and trade were developing. In 1874, first summer visitors settled in Ogre, and their numbers was growing considerably every year. Soon, Ogre received the rights of a village. Beautiful Ogre region became one of the most favourite resting places and tourist sites. In these times, Ogre had even more visitors than the seaside city J\u016brmala.<\/p>\n

Although the sea is about 40 km further to north, tourists were enjoying the fresh and healing air of the pine forest, which could resemble the sea scent. Visitors loved walking in the area of Blue Mountains, they liked to visit caf\u00e9s and different relaxing events. In 1928, Ogre was granted the rights of a town. Unfortunately, during the Soviet industrialisation period there were some big factories built and Ogre lost its popularity as a resort centre.<\/p>\n

Ogre is a great place to live. It is situated very close to Riga,\u00a0its infrastructure is developed, but at the same time – environment is clean \"\"<\/a>and friendly, there is a beautiful view, fresh air, a forest for walking, a river and lakes for fishing and swimming. Ogre offers various opportunities for different sport activities too. This is a great place to make a good foundation for child development \u2013 School of Arts, School of Music, Sport Centre, etc.<\/p>\n

Nowadays Ogre becomes more popular also for tourists. So, if you are coming to Ogre, you definitely should see:<\/strong><\/p>\n