Where to go
Latvia
Things to do in Riga
The capital and largest city of Latvia, Riga was once deemed the ‘Paris’ of the East. You will find that today it is a growing city that is on the forefront of Eastern Europe’s modernization as well as having the charm of a fairy-tale city that earned it a place among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Places you’ll want to visit while in the cosmopolitan corner-stone of the Baltics, other than strolling along the charming old-town streets, is the Building of the Brotherhood of Blackheads, a beautiful and highly iconic building, St. Peter’s Church, iconic landmark that towers over the city and many of the city’s historical monuments (like the Freedom Monument) that tell visitors about the city’s history and its two decades of freedom from the establishment of Latvia as a totally autonomous state in 1991.