Seda Swamp

This route offers most unusual views.  Seda is the only town in Latvia with Soviet-era planning from the middle of the last century, featuring a central square and streets stretching from it in a star pattern.  The architectural style of apartment and public buildings is rather exotic.  

The Seda Swamp yielded peat moss during the first period of Latvia’s independence and is one of the largest industrial and environmental territories of its kind in Latvia and the Baltic States.  Former peat fields have partly become flooded and are overgrown with reeds, thus creating an outstanding environment for nesting water birds and migrating birds which rest at the swamp.  Peat is still being extracted, and perhaps you will be lucky enough to spot the “little peat moss train.”
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The fourth largest swamp (7582 ha) in Latvia. The swamp rises 4.5-5 m above the surrounding terrain. Its base is mostly sandy and bumpy, where lower areas are intersected with terrain elevations made up of eolie sediments and ancient, nearly 10-11 thousand years ago blown inland dunes.

Since 1954, peat has been produced on the swamp of Seda, which is produced and processed by a company called “Seda”, while a processing and packaging plant has been operating in the town of Seda, located south of the swamp of Seda. Peat extraction is serviced by narrow-gauge railway.
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