Latvia Culture and Sights

Domestic election relatives side by side. Siblings are the three neighboring houses do not, they emerged at different times. Big Brother is the house right. With the gothic stage gable looks even like t...

Latvian suffering shocking documents in the "Black Coffin". "Black Coffin" called the wrinkled Riga hall on Rathausplatz, where an extensive and shocking exhibition Latvian suffering under the Nazi terr...

Only unmarried merchants were previously in. The Renaissance pediment of the guild house of 1334 shaped the old town hall square (Rātslaukums). The curious name stems from the "company of the black hea...

Deeper look into Jēkabpils' past: As a blacksmith worked 200 years ago? Go on a journey into the past. Typical farmhouses, a windmill and a variety of equipment in this museum will give you an authenti...

Used in the 19th-century to triangulate a segment of a meridien and determine the size of the globe. The Struve Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black...

On a day through Latvia. On a day hike through the whole of Latvia? In the Ethnographical Museum at Juglas Lake 8 km east of downtown succeed das Over one hundred buildings from all provinces were used ...

Their fourth tower will be around forever. Rīgas beautiful church, primarily because of the baroque, in two open filigree galleries broken octagonal tower: 121 m altitude with a landmark of the city. An...

Symbols hanseatic power. Where Meistaru iela craftsmen with colorful houses from the 16th and 17 Live at the Century Square (Livu laukums) leads, two symbols of the Hanseatic Rīgas power: the guild hous...

Where Rīga revels in the Art Nouveau. New Rīga grew quickly after Czar Nicholas II had allowed 1857, the fortress walls to grind - the old long burst at the seams. The nostalgic charm of winding Vecrīga...