The Līgatne paper-mill village was once one of the most modern workers’ settlements in Europe. It was created at the end of the 19th century, as the Līgatne paper mill developed and expanded. Although the paper mill is now closed, the village is still populated. Its historical centre is a nationally important protected urban-construction monument – the only ensemble of wooden buildings of this type in the Baltics. The Līgatne hills surrounded by the Līgatne River and the sandstone cliffs of Ānfabrika and Lustūži. For centuries, people have been creating cave systems and cellars in the sandstone outcrops – 333 cellar caves have been identified in Līgatne.  

• In the village’s former maternity clinic, it was a tradition to raise a blue or a pink flag on the day when a boy or girl was born.
• A ferry connects the two banks of the Gauja – the only ferry of this type in the Baltics.
• The Līgatne ferry is made of two boats tied together with a plank deck. The cable that crosses the river stops the ferry from being carried away by the current, but it is the force of that current which pulls the ferry from shore to shore.