The city of Liepāja (Libau) was established at a shore of the Baltic Sea, on a land strip created by Līva and Pērkone rivers and bounded off by Tosmare Lake. The vastness of the Baltic Sea and pine woods at the seashore made Liepaja an attractive location for living. In the 19th century Liepaja became a health resort, which furthered the development of the city. A great attention was paid to improvement of the city environment and transformation of moving sand dunes into very green area of recreation. The town centre of the health resort, according to the demands of the noble bathing guests, was designed to be suitable for therapy, recreation and entertainment. In 1860 the heir of the throne of Russia, Grand Duke Nikolaj Aleksandrovich, traveled to Liepaja together with the members of the tsar family. The greenery in the Seaside Park was planned according to a 1899 project by landscape architect Georg Kuphaldt (1853–1938), the director of Riga’s gardens and parks. Following the aspirations of Liepaja's mayor Karl Gottlieb Sigismund Ulih, the oldest part of the park developed into modern European health region with a unique architectonic and spatial composition. The ensemble was completed by a bathing establishment, which was built in 1902 according to city’s principal architect Max Paul Bertschy’s (1840–1911) project. In the beginning of the 20th century buildings, sidewalks and street greenery together with city parks and squares created a unique urban planning ensemble and defined the identity of the city. Until the Second World War the composition of the plantation was systematically developed. Seaside Park became the largest landscape park in Latvia and a great example of a scenic and dendrologically varied system of plantings on the Baltic Sea coast. By incorporating elements of nature in the city environment, it is possible to achieve a harmony between the natural and the man-made.