Dikļi Parish

Dikļi Parish (Latvian: Dikļu pagasts) is an administrative unit of Valmiera Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia.

Dikli is a quiet rural village in the northern part of Latvia that is home to around only five hundred people.

In Latvia, Dikļi is well known as the birthplace of the traditions of the Latvian theatre and song festivals.

In 1818, Dikļi Palace was the venue for a performance of Friedrich Schiller's play “The Robbers” translated by a servant on the estate, Janis Peitans, in which the local farmers resident in the vicinity of Dikli took to the stage as actors.

The avenue of oak trees leading from Dikļi Palace Hotel leads directly to a small wooden church built as a pile building back in 1722 which was transformed into a brick building in 1848 retaining its previous form.