Mazmežotne – Tērvete – Skrunda
The baker Jānis Kurpnieks, with his 20 years of experience in bread-baking, has created a small bakery at his father’s home to combine traditions with the latest trends. Using his own recipes, Kurpnieks bakes more than 12 varieties of bread, including healthy snacks – berry and fruit rye bread, which serves as a good substitute for pastries, as well as flour-free bread that nowadays is in high demand. Many varieties of bread with sliced rye grains and rye sweet and sour bread are offered. His bread is wheat flour free, which nowadays is a rarity. The rye bread is made only from organic ingredients, using homemade starter obtained from the wooden kneading trough scraper. The dough is fermented in oak tubs; afterwards, each hand-shaped loaf (reaching up to half a metre) is placed on the bread shovel and placed in a wood fired oven which is heated using conifer firewood.
- Tērvete Museum of Ancient History and Tērvete Wooden Castle
This is the only museum dedicated to the Semigallian cultural and historical heritage, displaying two models of Tērvete Castle, images of objects of the Semigallian castle mounds and visualisations of the castles that once stood there, various weapons, a chainmail hauberk, household items, etc. Here, you can buy Semigallian jewellery and observe how it is made.
- Dinner at the restaurant “Zoltners”
- A visit to Tērvete brewery and beer tasting
Tērvete beer is made by craftsmen whose experience spans several decades, using carefully selected home-grown ingredients. Tērvete beer is among the most popular in Latvia. During your visit to the brewery, you will have the chance to discover how beer is made, learn some brewing secrets, watch a short film and enjoy several varieties of Tērvete beer or Tērvete kvass and some snacks. At the end of the visit you can purchase the special souvenirs, as well as beer.
- Dinner and accommodation at Skrunda Manor or Milk Manor
