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Nativity of Christ Orthodox Cathedral

The Nativity of Christ Cathedral is Riga's main Orthodox church, its gold domes rising out of the trees at the edge of the Esplanade park. The interior is dark, candlelit and heavy with icons.

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Freedom Monument

The Freedom Monument (Brīvības piemineklis) is a 42-metre stone and copper column on the edge of the Old Town in Riga, Latvia. Locals call it Milda, and it stands as the country's best-known symbol of independence and na…

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Latvian National Opera House

The Latvian National Opera House (Latvijas Nacionālā opera) is Riga's main home for opera and ballet, a neoclassical theatre on Aspazijas bulvāris at the edge of the Old Town. It stands beside the green ribbon of the Cit…

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Art Nouveau Museum

Riga's Art Nouveau Museum occupies a restored apartment on Alberta iela, the street with the greatest concentration of Art Nouveau facades in the city. The spiral staircase inside is the single most photographed detail. …

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Riga’s First Art Nouveau Building

Riga's First Art Nouveau Building stands at Audēju iela 5 in the Old Town of Riga, Latvia. It was remodeled in the late 1890s for a book publisher named Grosets, and it is celebrated as the city's first step into the Art…

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The Swedish Gate

The Swedish Gate (Zviedru vārti) is a narrow arched passage cut through the old city wall of Riga, Latvia, next to the Old Town streets near Trokšņu iela. It is the only surviving gate of Riga's medieval city walls, and …

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Riga Cathedral

Riga Cathedral is the largest medieval church in the Baltics, and its organ was for a time the biggest in the world. Concerts run through the year. The cloister alongside is worth the separate look.

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Roland's Statue

Roland's Statue stands on Town Hall Square (Rātslaukums) in the Old Town of Riga, Latvia. It is a figure of the knight Roland, a symbol of justice and civic rights in Hanseatic cities. In Riga he stands in the middle of …

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