Brochure with travel map "Military Heritage Tourism. Latvia - Estonia"

When you are travelling in Latvia and Estonia, we invite you to visit sites that speak to military heritage related to the beginning of World War I in 1914, the fact that both countries won their independence in 1918, and the fact that they restored their independence in 1990/1991. Such sites include museums, fortresses, military equipment, hiking paths, bunkers, battlegrounds, military towns, infra-structure and commemorative sites.

The following 150 military heritage sites are marked on the map: former military bases, coast guard structures, forest brothers’ bunkers, battlefields, museums, collections, exhibitions, monuments and memorial sites. Each site has a section with its name and a short description, address and telephone number. For many sites that can be seen in the countryside, such as battle and memorial sites, former military buildings, the address and telephone number do not exist and therefore cannot be listed. GPS coordinates are shown for all locations. Sites included in this map present the events in one or more stages of history:

• World War I / Wars of Independence 1914-1920
• World War II 1939-1945
• National partisan movement (forest brothers) 1944 - ~ 1957
• Soviet occupation and restoration of indepen-dence 1945-1991

The historical stages are briefly described in the brochure “Military Heritage, Latvia / Estonia 1914 – 1991”, to which this map belongs. The brochure also provides information on battle re-enactment events, military parades and national independence celebrations in Latvia and Estonia.