{"id":204,"date":"2017-10-17T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2017-10-16T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T06:52:12","slug":"images-of-seda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hesstonia.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Images of Seda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are a few images from a recent visit to Seda, a small town in Northern Latvia (current population 1,700). Built amid swampland, the town was established in the 1950s to house workers of a nearby peat extraction plant. The town is dominated by a formal geometric street pattern lined with 1950s-style apartment buildings in the Stalinist style, as well as 1960s- and 1970s-era Soviet-style apartment buildings.<\/p>\n

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Here are a few images from a recent visit to Seda, a small town in Northern Latvia (current population 1,700). Built amid swampland, the town was established in the 1950s to house workers of a nearby peat extraction plant. 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