🎧 Audio guide: “The Iron Fist of the Ādaži Collective Farm”
We invite you to explore the history of Ādaži Municipality through this audio guide!
The town of Ādaži, as we know it today, began to take shape in the 1960s around what is now Līgo Square. At that time, Ādaži was known primarily as a collective farm, which existed for 41 years and had a significant impact on the lives of many Latvians.
The collective farm system, in which membership was compulsory, destroyed private property and left a deep mark on society, despite Soviet propaganda. On this walk, you will learn how Ādaži developed during the Soviet era, when the collective farm and later ‘Agrofirma Ādaži’ organised production – animal husbandry, bread baking and horticulture – and also built significant public buildings.
The collective farm was established as a model farm, used to impress foreign visitors, whilst concealing the true reality behind the “Iron Curtain”.
📱 How to listen to the audio guide?
- Download the free “izi.TRAVEL” app to your phone
- Type “The Iron Fist of the Ādaži Collective Farm” into the app’s search bar
- Audio guide link: The Iron Fist of the Ādaži Collective Farm
- Make sure your phone has an internet connection and GPS
🗺️ Audio guide locations
- Kukulītis – meeting point here
- The old cultural centre and the kolkhoz manager’s office
- The old post office building and Soviet sculpture
- Pizzeria and market
- Sports complex
- DOSI
- Ādaži Secondary School
- Animal farm
- Bone Bridge
- Nursery
👨👩👧 Who is the audio guide suitable for?
The audio guide is suitable for individual visitors, families and school groups who wish to explore the history of Ādaži in an informal and interactive way. The walk allows you to discover places where traces of economic, social and cultural life from the Soviet era can be seen.
Photo from the Ādaži Municipality tourism portal