The development of the Katvari estate begins from the 18th-20th century with a beautiful, original Park of regular style with two terraces and a lake. Along the shore terraces of the lake stretch old lime alleys with recreation areas. In the creation of the Park, signs of the early Baroque of the 19th century have been preserved. Katvari manor and its buildings are a monument of architecture of national significance. Juris Neikens (writer, priest, organizer of the first Latvian song festival in 1864) worked and studied as a gardener’s assistant at the Katvari estate. The manor was built in the middle of the 18th century and it has partially preserved the interior decoration of the original and neo-Gothic style of the 19th century. The building of the 19th century was built with bricks, highlighted by neo-Gothic forms.
The area of the Park is 15.25 ha, including 2 ponds occupying 0.1 ha. The Park is adjacent to the Eastern shore of lake Katvaru, with a slope towards the lake. The composition of the Central part is strictly symmetrical, a slow slope between the castle and the lake terrace. The basis of plantings in the main groups of woody trees. In the creation of the Park, signs of the early Baroque-classicism of the 19th century have been preserved. Interesting are the lime alleys, of which the grandest on the upper terrace is 400-year-old, with a thickness of 4-5 m and a length of up to 40 m. The most memorable of all the plantings of Katvari is the Northern labyrinth of Linden trees with very peculiar Linden trees, through the foliage of which the sky is not visible in summer.
