Cabinet Regulation No. 235 of 1996 on By-law of the Specially Protected Cultural and Historical Territory Abava Valley Country/Territory Latvia Document type Regulation Date 1996 (2009) Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Latvijas Vēstnesis, 115, 05.07.1996. Subject Wild species & ecosystems Keyword Management/conservation Cultural heritage Protected area Sustainable development Geographical area Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, Northern Europe Abstract The specially protected cultural and historical territory Abava Valley is a complex of cultural monuments having particular cultural, historical, scientific and artistic value. The Abava Valley was designed to prevent the degradation of the cultural and historical environment and nature and also to preserve the cultural and natural heritage for future generations, to promote the balanced development of the territory, the development of education and tourism, and scientific research work. The activity in the Abava Valley covers the research of the cultural, historical and natural heritage of the region and the development of artistic traditions. Cultural and natural monuments, other objects of cultural and historical significance, historical buildings, the fragments thereof, historically important spatial planning and land use systems (historic cities, cultural, historical and natural landscape, an environment suitable for monuments and historical road network, forest, meadow and rural historical borders), the natural and historic coastal landscape, historical hydrotechnical structures, historical views recorded in works of art and elsewhere, specially protected nature territories, historical traditions and legends, the uniqueness and identity of the region shall be preserved in the Abava Valley. Full text English/Latvian Website likumi.lv References - Legislation Implements Law on Protection of Cultural Monuments (1992) Legislation | Latvia | 1992 (2018) Keyword: Cultural heritage, Use restrictions, Land tenure, Right of use Source: FAO, FAOLEX