Kauguri, Latvia agency. It is also home to the football club FK Jūrmala, playing in the Virsliga. Kauguri bathing area received the National Bathing Area Quality Certificate acknowledging it conformity with several International Blue Flag Certification criteria. It takes about 40 minutes to get to Kauguri from Riga (the capital city of Latvia) by car, about 50 minutes by train and about an hour by bus. Kauguri, Latvia Kauguri is a residential area in the western part of Jūrmala, a city in Latvia. It is estimated that the population is approximately one-half of Jūrmala's population, so it is more than 20,000. As
Religion in Latvia with 17.3%. Latvia was one of the last regions in Europe to be Christianized. The inhabitants of the region that is now Latvia once practiced Finnic paganism and Baltic mythology, but this practice gradually diminished through the course of the centuries. In the 12th to 13th centuries Latvia first fell under the influence of the Catholic Church, as the Christian kings of Denmark, Sweden and the North German Livonian and Teutonic military orders fought for influence in the region in what later became known as the Northern Crusades. Parts of Eastern Latvia (notably the Koknese and Jersika principalities) shortly came