In mid-November of 2024, we took a quick, three-day trip from Paris to Riga, Latvia. One of the main purposes of the trip was that we are big Art Nouveau aficionados, and prior to the trip we learned ...

It's hard to believe that most of what you're seeing when walking the cobblestone streets of Old City Riga is relatively new. Much of this historic urban center was destroyed during 20th-century wars; ...

This unique museum in the center of Old City Riga shares the story of what life was like for Latvians under the Communist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany occupation regimes from 1940 to 1991. In ...

When you look around the busy, friendly and vibrant streets of old Riga, it is easy to forget that they were ‘off-limits’ for most of us less than 20 years ago. Over 50 years of Soviet-enforced ...

Riga’s Old Town, known as Vecrīga in Latvian, lies at the very heart of Latvia’s capital. This enchanting district combines the charm of a medieval city with the vibrancy of a modern European hub.

The turn of the 17th century was a particularly stressful time for the people of Riga, Latvia, as famine and plague rocked the small town, resulting in mass graves. Archaeologists have recently ...

Riga has the look of somewhere that really, really wants people to visit it on a city break. It knows it’ll never have the art collections, international icons and global player dynamism of Paris, New ...

I asked river lines for their most popular Europe itineraries -- here they areClients unsure which river cruise itinerary to book? This list could be a handy starting point. I'm back, and up for some ...

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