Prezentace z Ad Campu 2015

1. Creating and managing a unique tourism object –
experience of Karosta Prison
Kristers Krafts
15.04.2015.

2. Where is Karosta?
Karosta is located at the
Baltic Sea, in Liepāja, the
third largest town of Latvia.

3. Built from 1890 to 1908 by Russian Tsar as main base of Baltic Naval forces.
Used as a military base throughout the 20th century.
Abandoned by Soviet Army in 1994.

4. More than 30 000
Soviet soldiers left
Karosta in 1994.

5. 5000 people live here today.

6. Karosta Prison
For 92 years used as disciplinary
punishment for Tsar sailors, Nazist
deserteurs and Soviet soldiers.
Today fully open for visitors.

7. Karosta Prison attracts
20 000 visitors every
year.
70% of them choose
an ordinary excursion,
the rest go for more.

8. Instead of visiting the cells
you get locked in.
Expect worst possible
treatment, unpleasent
interrogations and sullen inmates.

9. www.karostascietums.lv
www.karosta.lv
+371 2636 9470