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Turaida castle, pictures, location

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Turaida castle near Sigulda
The castle was build in 1214 by Filipp.

Tora - means "the God", aida - means "garden"

One night, in order to trick her, the Wicked Foreign Soldier forged a note from the Gardener asking Maija to come to Gutmana cave (a rendezvous point between the two castles). There he planned to rape her and force her to marry him. She arrived expecting a loving embrace and kiss from her beloved Gardener but instead found a deceitful ambush and a trap. The Wicked Foreign Soldier brought a companion and together trapped Maija helplessly in the cave. When she saw that there was no way out and that the men intended to take from her the only thing she had to give her truelove--her purity--she made a clever, yet costly deal with the foreigners.

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