Cat House Riga

... politics. Unfortunately she was super anti-Russian and even though me and some other people asked her how Latvia could alienate such a significant portion of the population, she responded that the older generation (which mostly speaks ...

... . When we arrived in the old downtown, the rain started again so, after some short seen of some feature (old city wall, cat house...) we head to the Occupation Museum which I had already visit but could spare some more of it! Later after the ...

... each spire or turret have weather-vanes or other decorations. Some have cockerels, others stars. One famous building, known at the Black Cat House, has a pair of cats balanced on the top of adjacent turrets. We bought some souvenirs and had a meal at TGI ...

... the squares, and interesting names for many of the buildings. Our favourites consisted of the 'House of Blackheads' and the 'Cat House' (called such simply because it has a statue of a cat on the roof). In our wanderings we also visited the Freedom ...

... the old town.  It is a beautiful statue of a woman holding three stars above her head.  We also saw the famous "Cat House", the "Swedish Gate", "St. Peter's Cathedral" and the town square as we wandered through the city.  We had ...

... women are gorgeous. There must be something in the water. Just along the street from the Powder Tower was the city-famous Cat House. The building itself was quite nondescript, but what attracted people to it were the black cats perched on the towers. ...