Notable Sites
- Fortifications (redoubts) built by Napoleon's army during invasion in Russia empire (1812):
- Silgrauži (Mazsilgrauži or Franči, too) redoubt - the best preserved redoubt in Latvia. Located at the right bank of Iecava river, where it meets Misa river. Redoubt has four corners (12x12 m) for cannons, earthen rampart (10–13 m wide) and moat filled with water around it. Total area - almost 200 000 m2.
- Blukas krogs (or Bluķi) redoubt - located at the right bank of Iecava river, in strategical place - near the ferry of the old Riga-Jelgava road. Total area - approximately 8 000 m2.
- Namiķi redoubt - located at the meeting of Iecava river and Garoze river.
- Dalbe Lutheran church (built in 1869).
- Tetele (or Tetelminde) tower (built in 1895) - located at the Lielupe river in the park of ex-Tetelminde manor house.
- Auči manor house - built in 1926 as a residence of family of the first president of Latvia Jānis Čakste.
- Stalgale Lutheran church (built in 2001).
- "Billītes" - Memorial house of the famous Latvian writer Edvarts Virza.
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