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Browse 26 reviews, 62 travel blogs, 120 photos and videos about 25 things to do in Riga. You'll also find some useful ratings and information so that you can get all of the unbiased information you need before filling your next trip with lots of fun things to do.

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Old City Riga (Vecriga)

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  • 15 travel blogs
  • 12 photos
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  • Jan 27, 2008: ... Arrival   We grabbed a bus and headed into the old city and straight away there was failure. I tried my Russian ...
  • Aug 27, 2006: ... started again so, after some short seen of some feature (old city wall, cat house...) we head to the Occupation Museum which ...
  • Jul 1, 2007: ... been much nicer.  Today, we just walked around the Old City and will do some heavier touring tomorrow and Tuesday.& ...
  • May 29, 2008: ... to more 17-18 century. There are some medieval houses in the old city but not that many. Some of them were destroyed in the ...

Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum Riga

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  • Jul 4, 2007: ... optimistic) and headed off on a bus to the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum, much to Rosa's disgust. She had learnt that ...

The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia Riga

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  • Feb 7, 2007: ... Riga has to offer...we ventured into the 'The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia'...which was very interesting...not that ...
  • Jul 14, 2006: ... for the view, but more importantly to go to the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, as we had cut short the museum in Estonia ...
  • Sep 23, 2006: ... culture, and spent a few hours walking around the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, detailing the history of the last 70 ...
  • Sep 13, 2008: ... set up. By then it was almost time for the "Museum of the Occupation of Latvia" to open. That was very interesting - and ...

House of Blackheads Riga

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  • Jul 2, 2007: ... a walking tour.  We began with the House of Blackheads.  This building had been completely destroyed during World ...
  • Jul 14, 2006: ... very beautiful buildings in the main square - especially the "House of Blackheads" and the town hall, but in general most of ...
  • Jun 28, 2006: ... by the main square, with the shiny new House of Blackheads, reconstructed in 2000 according to its original medieval plans. ...
  • Aug 26, 2007: ... for many of the buildings. Our favourites consisted of the 'House of Blackheads' and the 'Cat House' (called such simply ...

Riga Motormuseum

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Skyline Bar Riga

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  • Jul 14, 2005: ... night with some duchies, looking for a feed. Went to the Skyline bar, this had a fabulous view of the city at night, it's a ...
  • Sep 28, 2008: ... partying. But it didnt stop me from going to the Skyline Bar, a beautiful bar located on the 34 floor of a fancy hotel. ...
  • Aug 25, 2008: ... forget. We ended the day with a drink in the Skyline Bar, the highest bar in Riga which was on the top floor of our hotel, ...
  • Dec 10, 2005: ... took us through some really nice areas of Riga. We saw the palace, skyline bar, rich peoples houses in new riga, the opera ...

Freedom Monument (Brivibas Piemineklis) Riga

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  • Jul 24, 2007: ... iela (the main drag) up to the freedom monument, past awesome art nouveau buildings (Riga is best known for this apparently), ...
  • Jul 2, 2007: ... ), St. Peter's Church, St. Jacob's Church, and the Freedom Monument.  Our flight leaves Wednesday morning and we should ...
  • Sep 13, 2006: ... ! Did a bit more sightseeing and saw the freedom monument (Statue of Liberty) which symbolises the national independence ...
  • Jun 20, 2008: ... separate the new and old town. The most notable monument, the 'Freedom Monument' also divides the old and the new towns. ...

Brothers' Cemetery Riga

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National History Museum of Latvia / Riga Castle

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St. Peter's Church Riga

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  • Jun 2, 2004: ... at their craft as they sat there. I also went into St Peter's church across the street from the Applied Arts Museum. The ...
  • Jul 2, 2007: ... Tomorrow we plan to tour the Latvia Occupation Museum (Nazis through the Soviets), St. Peter's Church, St. Jacob's Church, ...
  • Jul 14, 2006: ... after lunch and some strong coffee, we headed up to St. Peter's church with its viewing tower 72m above the town. Luckily for ...
  • Jul 3, 2007: ... simple day.  We went to the Latvian Occupation Museum and to St. Peter's Church.  The Church was okay--we did not ...

Riga Zoo

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  • Nov 2, 2008: ... the burned out walls for the good measure. But when Latvia regained independence, one of the first restorations they decided ...

Cat House Riga

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  • Aug 27, 2006: ... so, after some short seen of some feature (old city wall, cat house...) we head to the Occupation Museum which I had already ...
  • Aug 26, 2007: ... favourites consisted of the 'House of Blackheads' and the 'Cat House' (called such simply because it has a statue of a cat ...
  • Aug 2, 2009: ... have cockerels, others stars. One famous building, known at the Black Cat House, has a pair of cats balanced on the top of ...
  • Jun 8, 2006: ... the street from the Powder Tower was the city-famous Cat House. The building itself is quite nondescript, but what attracts ...

St. Mary's Dome Cathedral Riga

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Central Market (Centraltirgus) Riga

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  • May 16, 2009: ... us outside of the old town to see the REAL Latvia. He took us to the Central Market where the freshest fish are caught each ...
  • Jul 7, 2008: ... took place. We got up early to head to the Central Market which is 5 aircraft hangers filled with produce, meat, ...
  • Sep 6, 2007: ... reading, although I do take a walk out to the bustling central market and Science academy to the South of the old Town ...
  • Nov 16, 2006: ... the hostel this morning and made our way down to the huge central market to have a browse. The Old Town here is really quite ...

Jauniela Riga

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Bastion Hill (Bastejkalns) Riga

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  • Jun 28, 2006: ... Later, we wandered outside the city walls, across to Bastion Hill, a picture perfect park replete with a small river ...
  • Nov 2, 2008: ... and lush green, undulating park. It was Bastejkalns or Bastion Hill Park in translation, today only the distant remains of ...

Salaspils Memorial Ensemble Riga

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St. John's Church Riga

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  • Sep 11, 2008: ... After the church - would you believe it, yet another St John's Church - I guesss that is all those Teutonic Knights - we went ...
  • Nov 2, 2008: ... I moved on to its lesser down-the-street neighbour, the St.John's church, or Sv Jāņa baznīca for the locals. ...

Club Essential Riga

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  • Sep 7, 2006: ... to the evening before we hit a club with an opening night called Essential........... Essential - fuck me....... this is ...

St. Saviour's Church Riga

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