Ventspils

A port city on the Baltic coast of Latvia notable for a well-maintained historic centre, a clean Blue Flag beach, and the Livonian Order castle on the Venta River bank — one of the best-preserved medieval fortresses in the country, now housing a museum. The city is widely regarded as one of the cleanest and best-maintained urban environments in the Baltic states, with well-kept public spaces and a functioning outdoor ethnographic museum of traditional Latvian coastal life.