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The Abava is a river in Latvia and the largest tributary of the Venta. It flows through Tukums, Talsi and Kuldiga districts. Fifty percent of the basin is covered by forests. Its valley was submitted for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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The Wine Hill of Sabile has been formed twice - for the first time in German period (14th - 16th century) but after that it has been started completely all over again in the period of the first independence of Latvia (1918 - 1940) in 1936. In the time of Duke Jacob (17th century) the formation of Sabile's Wine Hill is celebrated. The rebirth of the Wine Hill started in 1936. It is mentioned in different sources that the initiative came from the president of that time Karlis Ulmanis. The proof that the Wine Hill has been developed and yielded during the first independence of Latvia was the grape exhibition in Jelgava. There was also a small stand of the first harvest of Sabile's Wine Hill. Then the Second World War began and the development of Sabile's Wine Hill was interrupted. After the war the Gardening and Experimental Station of Pure continued to arrange the vineyard. But the managers of it changed again and as a consequence the quality of work decreased. After a while there was no one to take care of the Wine Hill. In 1989 a group of enthusiastic students started a renovation of Sabile's Wine Hill. The Wine Hill of Sabile was honored by the visit of the ex-president of Latvia Guntis Ulmanis. Today the height of the Wine Hill is 33.7 m (about 115 meters above the sea level). The total area of the vineyards is 1.5 ha. The plantations in the vineyard are regularly supplemented. There are about 800 vines of 30 different sorts. The well-known Latvian selectionist Pauls Sukatnieks has developed most of them. Here you can find various sorts, for example, Zilga (it forms the majority of the vines), Dvietes zila, Supaga, Sukribe, Guna, Veldze, Veina, Spulga, Meda, Lauma, Agra, Ritausma. There are also sorts developed by the Latvian selectionist Gunvaldis Vesmins, Dovga, Ljepajas dzintars, Ciravas agra and Liepajas agra, also Russian sorts Hasanskij sladkij and Skujina 675 and Lithuanian sorts Jodupe, Jadviga and Sele. The Wine Hill of Sabile was registered in the Guinness World Record Book as the most northern open-air vineyard in the world. In 2018 the landscape of Abava River Valley from Sabile Wine Hill was chosen as one of the 50 Latvian landscape treasures in the project 'Landscape treasures'.

Sabile is rich with springs and streams, but no one has ever counted them. A lot of town's houses get drinking water from these springs. "The curved Innkeeper" is kind of a central streamlet that starts as a spring. This spring has been flowing through Sabile for many years. In the past it ran across the street and in this spring at the side of the street people washed their legs after the Song Festival. In the first half of the 20th century (during the first Republic of Latvia) there was a wooden manger here, but during the years of Soviet occupation - a curved metal pipe. In this time the spring got its name, because the pipe was curved, but close to the spring there was an entry area and from this spring the water can be drawn as it is done in an Inn. "The curved Innkeeper" got its current form in the summer of 2010 before the Sabile Wine Festival. The pump, which was placed here at that time and still remains to this day, was found in a well near Sabile old post office building located on Talsu Street at Sabile Castle Mound. Nowadays the stream further goes under the street in the direction of Sabile Town Square, where it flows to the surface and then into the Abava River.

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