{"id":18561,"date":"2026-05-24T10:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/?p=18561"},"modified":"2026-05-25T10:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:17:42","slug":"pasta-sala-durvis-ver-smilsu-skulpturu-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/2026\/05\/24\/pasta-sala-durvis-ver-smilsu-skulpturu-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"A sand sculpture park opens on Pasta Island\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"18561\" class=\"elementor elementor-18561\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-368d8b5a elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-min-height elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-items-middle\" data-id=\"368d8b5a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1021055c\" data-id=\"1021055c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f928d89 animated-slow elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"3f928d89\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;none&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:300}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">A sand sculpture park opens on Pasta Island\u00a0<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7bfb9a58 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7bfb9a58\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">May 24, 2026<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-260a6b6a e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"260a6b6a\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71f5d4eb elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71f5d4eb\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Starting May 24, the Sand Sculpture Park on Pasta Island will be open to visitors, offering a chance to view the works from this year\u2019s 20th International Sand Sculpture Festival. This summer, the park has been transformed into a prehistoric world where dinosaurs and other inhabitants of the Jurassic period come to life in the sand.<\/p><p>The park is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., except on June 23 and 24, when it will be closed to visitors. Admission for adults is 3 euros, while for schoolchildren, students, seniors, and people with disabilities, it is 2 euros. Admission is free for children under 7 years of age. Tickets can be purchased on-site on Pasta Island at the ticket booth by the entrance, with payment accepted in cash or by credit card.\n\nTranslated with DeepL.com (free version)<\/p><p>This year\u2019s competition featured 15 professional sculptors from 10 countries\u2014Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Turkey, and the United States. In addition to the competition entries, visitors can also view the demo sculpture \u201cDinosaur Gathering,\u201d created by Agnese Rudz\u012bte-Kirillova from Latvia and Roger Ferralla from Spain, as well as the specially commissioned park entrance sculpture \u201cVolcano,\u201d created by sculptor Sanita R\u0101vi\u0146a.<\/p><p>The sand sculpture park on Pasta Island will be open all summer long, weather permitting.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasta sal\u0101 no 24. maija, apmekl\u0113t\u0101jiem atv\u0113rts Smil\u0161u skulpt\u016bru parks, pied\u0101v\u0101jot apskat\u012bt \u0161\u012b gada 20. Starptautisk\u0101 smil\u0161u skulpt\u016bru festiv\u0101la darbus. \u0160ovasar parks p\u0101rv\u0113rties aizv\u0113sturisk\u0101 pasaul\u0113, kur smilt\u012bs atdz\u012bvojas dinozauri un citi Juras laikmeta iem\u012btnieki. Parks ir atv\u0113rts katru dienu no pulksten 10.00 l\u012bdz 20.00, iz\u0146emot 23. un 24. j\u016bniju, kad tas apmekl\u0113t\u0101jiem b\u016bs sl\u0113gts. Ieejas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smilsu-skulpturas","category-zinas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18565,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561\/revisions\/18565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kultura.jelgava.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}