No 20096
Craftsmen Small farms
Craftsmen Latvia, Vidzeme, Limbažu novads

Dzirnupes

Craftsmen
Craftsmen

Celmu bungu darināšana.

Specializations

Type Description
Local lifestyle
Local lifestyle

"Dzirnupes" is a traditional farm in rural Vidzeme at a distance of 15 km from Limbaži.  During summers, the owners accept guests, offering a chance to spend the night in a romantic granary.  It was built in 1924 as a grain storage facility, but now it is a cosy little place for guests.  The granary is designed in an ethnographic style with antique furnishings, interior design objects and tools.  The granary also has a sauna.  The farm features a pond and little river for fishing or boating, a pergola and a place for picnics outdoor, a volleyball court, a small garden with local country goodies, and blossoming meadows.  Visitors will also meet some pets -- a goat, some geese, some chickens and a cat.

The "Dzirnupes" farm is managed by the Palelionis family -- Juris and Sandra.  Their adult children come to help out when they have free time.  Juris is a percussion master whose speciality is drums made of stumps.  They are carved from fir, linden and willow trees.  The stump is covered with sonorous goat or beaver skin.  Juris also makes other musical instruments and souvenirs, including horns, percussion instruments, pipes and whisks.

Guests will learn about the farm, dine on country goodies, drink herbal tea, listen to a story about how stump drums are created and, at the end of the process, play music together with their hosts.

PROGRAMME:

  • Meeting owners Sandra and Juris for a stroll around the farm;
  • Herbal tea and snacks prepared by Sandra, served in the pergola or granary;
  • In parallel, a story about how stump drums are made;
  • After that, music with drums and other percussion instruments created by the owner.

Certificates

Logo Certificate name Description
Professional
LC member
Environmental protection
Specially protected nature territories
Culture and history
Latvian Heritage
04/17/2013

On Latvian view on life

A traditional farmstead of Vidzeme situated  15 km from Limbazi, is a place where guests have the opportunity to stay overnight in a romantic barn. The granary built in 1924 has  turned into a barn for welcoming guests. „Dzirnupes” is a good place to relax for a couple or together with children. There is a sauna in the barn as well. There is a pond and a river suitable for swimming and fishing or romantic trip with a boat, arbour, a little house of forge, where the host will show you how to forge a nail; swings, a small allotment with the local vegetables and plants as well as flourishing meadows. One can even visit animals which are allowed to see, feed and stroke. The owners follow  a Latvian way of living, which they have passed on to their children. The host makes different tools for work on the field on his own as well musical instruments. At present the hostess is working at a new touring offer  - “Studies for wives” or “Sievzinibas” ,a programme appropriate in reference to Latvian traditions which offer the possibility for women who have recently got married to acquire different Latvian traditions and skills, int.al., baking bread. 

Belongs to a brand

Logo Brand Description
Flavours of Livonia - Producer