Go back to routeCentral Post Office in Art Deco style, Jelgava Primary School, the most modern school in Latvia (currently, State Gymnasium). Academia Petrina (currently, History and Art Museum) where many Lithuanian political and cultural figures were studying. National Bank Exhibition Hall in the Exhibition Square (currently, House of Culture) – the interior of ‘ethnic’ style.
Teacher, museum worker Laima Uozuolinia will tell about the spring floods in Jelgava during interwar and postwar periods when students did not go to school. Lawyers Leonid and Inta Konopenka will tell about the attempts to preserve the Art Deco interior of the deteriorating Central Post Office. Before the war, Lithuanians used to go to Latvia for summer agrarian works as wages and work conditions were better than in Lithuania. You will learn the meaning of Jelgava and Mitava city names of Baltic origin and why a moose is pictured in the coat of arms of Jelgava.
Red Cross Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Tērvete – one of the best examples of resort architecture in the world. Jelgava hotel, during the construction of which a secret tunnel was discovered.
We will get inside the Tērvete sanatorium with the architect J. Krastinš. You will see the modern reliefs of a prominent interwar Latvian sculptor K. Zemdeg. Three elevators, operating since 1931, remained: for people, for food, and for dirty dishes. Prof Jānis Krastiņš will talk about his father A. Krastiņš who was a professor in mathematics. You will hear the songs of Endijs Rožkalns and Zane Rožkalna. Also, you will hear an architect Aija Ziemeļniece singing and you will see a national costume of Zemgale region woven by her grandmother. 
