Valga-Valka festival underway, runs to next Wednesday
A festival uniting the twin towns of Valga (Estonia) and Valka (Latvia) kicked off on Thursday, Latvian public broadcaster LSM reports.
Friday brings a "Borderless Party," to be followed by a fair on Saturday, and various other events through to next Wednesday, June 12, LSM reports on its English-language page.
Valga, population a little under 12,000, and Valka, population around 4,500, are effectively the same town but long bisected by a national border, drawn up in 1920 by British civil servant Sir Stephen George Tallents.
After joining the Schengen Area of free movement, border controls disappeared – save for a period during the Covid pandemic – meaning Estonian and Latvian residents and other visitors can freely meet and mingle and perhaps do a spot of cross-border shopping.
More information in English is here.
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Source: LSM
