The focus of the Cēsis 2020 Art Festival in 2020, will be on sound to train listening and hearing skills during the post-crisis COVID-19, when tactile sensations are limited.

With a series of program about creative artists from Cēsis, which can be watched both on online and on television, Cēsis begins work on its biggest event of the year - “Cēsis 814” - which on July 18, 2020 will become the first virtual city festival in Latvia.

The world can change fast, as recent months have shown us. Whether it will ever be the same than before COVID-19 pandemic, remains to be seen. Nevertheless, it profoundly changed the tourism sector worldwide. At least for the foreseen future, it seems that the time for mass tourism and attractions for large customer groups is the past. At the same time small, “un-tact” and private tourism destinations and products have raised the interest among new customer groups. Now, more than ever, there is a market demand for attractive tourism products that base on nature, small-scale production, authentic lifestyle and sustainability. These are all attributes that can be easily associated with rural tourism.

A permanent exhibition at the visitor centre of the Āraiši ezerpils Archaeological Park is open to the public from 1 July, 2020. The exhibition provides insight into the original evidence retrieved from excavations and features the story of archaeologist Jānis Apals.