Riga in Pictures: 40 Free Photos of the Old Town and Art Nouveau
Riga in 40 free photos. The largest city of the Baltic states has a medieval old town of church spires and merchants’ houses, and one of the finest collections of Art Nouveau buildings in the world; both are on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
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Riga
On the Town Hall Square stands the House of the Blackheads, a guild house of German merchants, destroyed in the war and rebuilt in the 1990s. Nearby are the Three Brothers, the oldest houses in the city, the great brick Riga Cathedral, St Peter’s Church with a lift up its tower, the Powder Tower and the Town Musicians of Bremen, a gift from Riga’s partner city. Outside the old town, whole streets of Art Nouveau apartment houses with faces, flowers and towers line the boulevards, and bridges cross the wide Daugava.
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Where are the Art Nouveau buildings in Riga?
Mostly in the quiet centre just north of the old town, above all on Alberta iela and Elizabetes iela, a 15-minute walk from the cathedral.
