Name of Aglona is derived from the surrounding fir forests (a fir (Latvian egle) in a local pronunciation sounded like agla). Latgalians felt that this is the right place where to create one of the Balts’ holy places

The Via Crucis road is created at the niches of 9 gates of the new masonry fence, which covers the sacred square. The beginning of the road is at a lakeshore where a cross is placed, but the end – at the edge of the symbolic Golgotha cemetery