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Sightseeing Tours in RigaActivities in Riga1. Great Guild
Book Free Tour*The Large Guild is a building in Riga, Latvia. It is located near Livonian Square on 6 Amatu Street. The Large Guild was erected in the years 1854–1859 and built in English Gothic style with Gothic forms. It is one of the oldest public buildings in the Baltic states. The building is currently used as the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra concert hall.
2. Freedom Monument
The Freedom Monument is a monument located in Riga, Latvia, honouring soldiers killed during the Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920). It is considered an important symbol of the freedom, independence, and sovereignty of Latvia. Unveiled in 1935, the 42-metre (138 ft) high monument of granite, travertine, and copper often serves as the focal point of public gatherings and official ceremonies in Riga.
3. Old Riga
Vecrīga is the historical center and a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, located in the Central District on the east side of Daugava River. Vecrīga is famous for its old churches and cathedrals, such as Riga Cathedral and St. Peter's Church.
4. Reformed Church of Riga
Riga Reformed Church is an ancient Reformed (Calvinist) church at 10 Mārstaļu Street, Old Riga. Currently, the church building belongs to the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church and the LELB Youth Center has been installed in it. The building is an architectural monument of national importance. It is a baroque one-dimensional stone building with a wooden covering, a high gable roof facing Mārstaļu Street, crowned by a small turret with a dome and a gallery. The façade is rhythmically divided by pilasters located on a high plinth, while the so-called Morning Star is located on the spire of the building's tower. The sandstone entrance portal was created in Bremen and installed in 1737. In the entrance lobby there are two wooden staircases, but in the ceiling of the walls of the hall the original division of pilasters – the mirror vault – has been preserved. With the pulpit, the combined altar and organ balcony were built in 1805 in the style of classicism. In 1783, the organ of the firm of Heinrich Andreas Concius was installed, and in 1847 the organ of the firm of Schulze.
5. Latvian fire fighting museum
The Latvian Fire Museum is a museum in Riga, the exposition of which presents the history of firefighting from the middle of the 19th century to the present day. It opened on September 4, 1978. The museum is located in Riga, Hanzas Street 5, in a building built in 1910-1912 according to the project of the German-Baltic architect Reinhold Georg Schmöling, in an Art Nouveau house. The building is an architectural monument of local importance. There used to be a fire station in this building, and in one wing of the building there is still the Riga Part 9 of the State Fire and Rescue Service. The building is crowned with a tower of observation and hose drying with a baroque stylized spire.
6. House of the Black Heads
The House of the Blackheads is a building situated in the old town of Riga, Latvia. The original building was erected in 1334 as a warehouse, meeting and celebration place for merchants. It was the biggest public building of Riga. From mid-15th century it was also used by Brotherhood of Blackheads, a guild for unmarried merchants, shipowners and foreigners in Riga. Major works were done in the early 17th century, adding most of the Mannerist ornamentation. In the 19th century some of the sculptures were made by the workshop of August Volz. Additionally, it is the site of the first decorated Christmas tree, which was erected in 1510.
7. Riga Motor Museum
Riga Motor Museum is the biggest antique vehicle museum in the Baltic countries, located in Riga, Latvia. The museum is a state agency operating under the Republic of Latvia Ministry of Transport. Since 1992, the museum is a member of International Association of Transport and Communication Museums (IATM–ICOM), since 1994 a member of Latvian Museum Association, since 2002 – a member of Latvian Transport Development and Education Association. The museum is located at 6 Sergeja Eizenšteina Street in the Mežciems neighbourhood of Riga. The museum also features a café and a sports club.
8. Pharmacy Museum
The Latvian Museum of Pharmacy is a medical museum in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 1987 in association with the Pauls Stradins Museum for History of Medicine and is located on Richard Wagner street in an18th century building which itself is an architectural monument. The museum is dedicated to understanding the development of pharmacy and pharmacies in Latvia and contains documents and books from the 17th- 19th century, pharmacist tools and devices for preparing drugs, and drugs which were manufactured in Latvia in the 1920s and 1930s
9. Latvian National Theatre
The Latvian National Theatre is one of the leading professional theatres in Latvia. The building is in the eclectic style and is an architectural and artistic monument. The country of Latvia was proclaimed in this building in the year 1918. On 23 February 2002, the theatre celebrated its 100th anniversary. The director of National Theatre of Latvia since 2006 has been Ojārs Rubenis.
10. Barklaja de Tolli piemineklis
The monument to Barclay de Tolli is a monument to the Russian warlord Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolli. It is located on the Esplanade, in Riga, near the Orthodox Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ. The original monument was installed in 1913, two years later the sculpture was dismantled, but the postament was preserved. In 2002, the sculpture was restored to its historical site.
11. Museum of the history of Riga and navigation
Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation is housed by the Riga Dom Cathedral ensemble in the heart of the Old Riga, Latvia. It originated in 1773 as a private collection of Nikolaus von Himsel, a Riga doctor and, being one of the oldest museums in Europe, over the centuries it has grown into the largest collection of material evidence of the history of Riga.
Wikipedia: Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation (EN), Website
12. Mangaļsalas bāka
Mangaļsala Lighthouse is a former lighthouse located on the eastern pier of the Düna estuary. It was in operation until 1998 and was replaced by a 7-meter-high metal tower. Now it is set up as a decorative monument on the city canal in the former "Schützengarten". The name is reminiscent of the former location on Magnusholm.
13. Daugavgriva lighthouse
Daugavgrīva Lighthouse is a lighthouse located in Daugavgrīva on the Bay of Riga on the Latvian coast of the Baltic Sea. The lighthouse was built in 1956, located next to Daugava River. Due to the change in the river's course, several lighthouses have been built, destroyed, and rebuilt again over the course of history.
14. St. James's Cathedral
St James's Cathedral is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Riga in Latvia. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint James the Greater. The building is part of the Old Riga UNESCO World Heritage Site and lies directly opposite the House of the Livonian Noble Corporation, the meeting place of Latvia's parliament the Saeima.
15. Latvian Railway History Museum
Latvian Railway History Museum is a railway museum with expositions in Riga and in Jelgava, dedicated to the history of railway and its development in Latvia. The museum is a structural unit of the company "Latvijas dzelzceļš". The museum has the largest collection of wide-gauge vehicles in the Baltics.
16. Riga Circus
Riga Circus is a circus located at 4 Merķeļa Street in Riga. The circus building was opened on December 29, 1888. It is one of the oldest circus buildings in Europe and the only permanent circus building in the Baltic States. The circus is included in the list of state protected cultural monuments.
17. Vadošā gaisma Baltā baznīca
The Baltā baznīca beacon is located in the Riga district of Vecmīlgrāvis (German Old Mill Ditch) and consists of three units: the orange signal light, which comes almost south-facing from a church tower window, and two beacons with signal lights in the direction of the port on the Düna.
18. Pils laukums
The Castle Square is a square near Riga Castle in the Old Town. The square from other parties includes the Bank of Latvia building, the former Riga Emperor Lyceum building, the former building of the Hotel "St. Petersburg", the Church of Our Lady of pain of Riga and other buildings.
19. Biķeru Svētās Katrīnas baznīca
Biķeri St. Catherine's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a church of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church at 59 Old Biķernieku Street, Riga, Latvia. The church was built in the late Baroque style from boulders, bricks and plastered. Next to the church there is an ancient cemetery.
20. Riga Gheto and Latvian Holocaust museum
The Riga Ghetto and the Latvian Holocaust Museum is a museum in Riga. Opened on September 21, 2010, it is the second ghetto museum in the post-Soviet countries [reference needed]. The museum is located in the historic spikers of the Riga Central Market, Lastadijas street 14a.
21. Museum of Decorative Arts and Design
The Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design is an arts museum in Riga, Latvia. The museum was established on 1 January 1989 and opened to the public on 6 July 1989. It is located in the former church St. George's Church, Riga, the oldest surviving stone building in Riga.
Wikipedia: Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (EN), Website
22. Dauderi
Dauderi is a museum of historical and cultural rarities of ethnic Latvians from Germany - the philanthropist of Gaidis Graudins, who gave the city its collection of art objects associated with the history of Latvia. Open in 1990, located in Riga, in the Sarkandaugava area.
Wikipedia: Латвийский музей культуры «Даудери» (RU), Website
23. The Latvian National Museum of Art
The Latvian National Museum of Art is the richest collection of national art in Latvia. It houses more than 52,000 works of art reflecting the development of professional art in the Baltic area and in Latvia from the middle of the 18th century until the present time.
24. Māras dārzs
Māra dzirnavu pond is an artificial water reservoir in Riga on Mārupīte between Torņakalns and Āgenskalns. The banks of the pond are flat, the bottom muddy. Runoff is regulated by the floodgates. Dwells linseed, pike, perch, carp, roach, carrion, crayfish.
25. St. Mary Magdalene's Church
St. Mary Magdalene Roman Catholic Church and Monastery in Riga is a Roman Catholic Church church at Klostera Street 2, Old Riga. An architectural monument of national importance of the 13th–17th centuries. Services are held in Latgalian, Latvian and English.
26. Mirzo Ulugbek
Myrza Muhammad Tarragai bin Sharjah, known as Ulugbek, was the ruler of the Timurids and an Uzbek astronomer, mathematician and sultan. Was a prominent promoter of science, making Samarkand a science center. Known as one of the founders of modern astronomy.
27. Jaunatnes dārzs
Youth Garden is a small park in Riga, Āgenskalns between Lapu, Melnsila and Ernestines streets. Unofficially, it was also called Lermontov Park, since earlier Lermontov Street and the 5th trolleybus stop of the same name were located next to each other.
28. Anglikāņu baznīca
St. Saviour's Church is a congregation of the Church of England in Riga, Latvia. Its parish church is located at Anglikāņu iela 2. This is to the north of the old town centre (Vecrīga), close to Riga Castle and the banks of the Daugava River.
29. Māte Latvija
Brothers' Cemetery or Cemetery of the Brethren, also sometimes referred to in English as the Common Graves or simply as the Military Cemetery, is a military cemetery and national monument in Riga, capital of Latvia.
30. Svētā svētmocekļa Rīgas Jāņa nogalināšanas vieta
Archbishop John was the first Latvian Archbishop of the Latvian Orthodox Church, serving from 1921 to his assassination in 1934. He was also involved in politics, and was the leader of the Party of the Orthodox.
31. Švarcmuiža
Schwarzmuiza, formerly Hagenshof, is a building of the owner of architect M. Holsta Celta Manor, Daugavgrīvas Street 19/21 in Agenskalns. The building burned down in 1812, restored in 1872, 1997 and 2017.
32. 1941
Torņakalns Memorial to Victims of Communist Terror is a monument located at Torņakalns Station in Riga, Latvia. The memorial place is dedicated to the residents of Latvia who were deported in June 1941.
Wikipedia: Torņakalns Memorial to Victims of Communist Terror (EN)
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