Alsunga

Alsunga is one of two villages in the second smallest municipality in Latvia with 1 390 inhabitants. The local community is mainly made up of people with old cultural traditions – called suiti. The Suiti Cultural Space was inscribed in UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding in 2009. Alsunga is a good place to live, but ongoing depopulation is reducing available resources , thereby changing the living environment and the need for services. The main priorities are to develop sustainable local food and a craft market to increase marketing volumes for home-based producers and to develop the local school. Due to administrative reforms, the Alsunga municipality will be incorporated into a much larger municipality and will become an outskirts parish. This will require the development of a strong village strategy and team to keep the development of Alsunga.

Country

Latvia

Type

coasts, inner peripheries, sparsely populated areas

Degree of urbanization

rural

population of 600

Smart Village Strategy of Alsunga

Village Solutions

Increasing marketing volumes for home producers

Weekly market (Suitu tirgus) of local food producers and artisans - widely visited and popular among residents of other regions of Latvia

School – the most cool place for learning

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