Galeni manor park

Galēni, Galēni parish, Riebiņi municipality
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In front of the Galēni manor Lord house is a park of regular planning, created in a French style during the time of Mihails Borhs (1751.–1811.). On the perimeter, the park is surrounded by alleys of trees and rows of trees, but in the center, dry ditches resemble bastion-like fortifications. Park has 14 species of exotic trees and shrubs. This park is a nature area to be protected by the state, in a total of a 5,9 ha. The territory is maintained on a regular basis, the compositions are being renewed. An oak alley was renewed in 2000, overall 40 trees were planted in the framework of a park reconstruction project of a Latvian University of Agriculture students, as a part of their Agriculture engineer faculty thesis. In the central area of the manor park, different events are held, for example, Midsummer celebrations. Every year in April and May, joint-work activities are done in order to do necessary maintenance work for the park.
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