Riga Old Town (Vecrīga) is the historical center of Riga, Latvia, located on the east side of Daugava River. Vecrīga is fam ...
House of the Blackheads (Melngalvju nams) is a building situated in the old town of Riga. The original building was erected d ...
First record of the St. Peter's Church dates back to 1209. The church was a masonry construction and therefore undamaged by a ...
Mentzendorff House, a subunit of the Museum of History and Navigation, with its 17-18th century atmosphere is the only museum ...
Museum of the Occupation of Latvia 1940-1991 (Latvijas okupācijas muzejs) is an historic educational institution. It was ...
During the centuries of German economic domination, the guilds were Riga's power brokers. The former, dating from 1384, was t ...
Riga Cathedral is the Protestant cathedral in Riga, Latvia. Built near the River Daugava in 1211 by Livonian Bishop Albert of ...
St. John's Church was built in the 13th century, probably between 1234-1297. It was originally home of the Dominican monks, b ...
St. James's Cathedral, or the Cathedral Basilica of St. James is dedicated to Saint James the Greater. It is frequently refer ...
The Latvian Museum of Pharmacy is a medical museum in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 1987 in association with the Pauls Stra ...
Built from 1727-1733, this is one of the few Calvinist churches in Latvia. After renovations in 1805, its basement was turned ...
The Latvian War Museum is a war museum in Riga, Latvia. It began as the Riflemen Museum in 1916 during World War I. The bui ...
The so-called Powder Tower originally served as one of the Riga defensive system buildings. There is no information on the ...
The Freedom Monument if a symbol of independent Latvia. From the moment Latvia acquires its independence a search for a suita ...
This little church commissioned by British traders living in Riga was built in 1857 on a shipload of English soil specially i ...
Riga Castle (Rīgas pils) is a castle on the banks of River Daugava. The castle was founded in 1330. This structure was t ...
The Nativity of Christ Cathedral (Kristus Piedzimšanas pareizticīgo katedrāle) was built to a design by Nikolai Chagin in ...
The Latvian National Theatre (Latvijas Nacionalais teatris) was built between 1899-1902 by the design of architect Augusts Re ...
The National Opera House was constructed in 1863 by architect Ludwig Bohnstedt from St. Petersburg, for the then German-spe ...
The Academy of Sciences edifice was built after World War II, between 1951 and 1961, collecting the necessary financing from ...
The Latvian Museum of Foreign Art was established in 1920 and contains the most extensive collection of world art in Latvia f ...
The original church that once stood here was destroyed when the entire area was razed in 1812 to deprive Napoleon’s arm ...
The monumental neo-Gothic church was consecrated in 1869. This red brick masterpiece topped with a green copper spire was des ...
The museum “Jews in Latvia” was established in 1989 to research, popularize and commemorate the history of Latvia ...
Construction of this Classicist wooden building began in 1820 and was completed five years later. In 1862 its eclectic-style ...
Although an older church dating back to 1453 once stood here, the current 17th-century Russian baroque-style building was com ...
Bikernieki Memorial is a war memorial to The Holocaust victims of World War II in Bikernieki forest, near Riga. Bikernieki fo ...
The first wooden place of worship was built here in 1760, and the current building was completed in 1814. It is home to one ...
Completed in 1891, this neo-gothic church was belatedly built to commemorate the birth of Martin Luther (1483 - 1546) – ...
The Jungfernhof concentration camp was an improvised concentration camp in Latvia. It was in operation from December 1941 thr ...
The Great Cemetery (Latvian: Lielie kapi, German: Grosser Friedhof) was formerly the principal cemetery of Riga in Latvia, es ...
Daugavgrīva Castle was originally a monastery converted as a fortress by Swedish in the 17th century. Today there are no ...