About this route
Medieval Hanseatic architecture meets the world's finest concentration of Art Nouveau buildings.
Stops on this route
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Start
House of the Blackheads
Ornate 14th-century guildhall, meticulously rebuilt after wartime destruction.
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Riga Cathedral
The largest medieval church in the Baltics, with a famous 19th-century organ.
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St. Peter's Church
Gothic church with a wooden spire offering the best panorama of Old Riga.
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Three Brothers
Three adjoining medieval dwelling houses, the oldest residential buildings in Riga.
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Art Nouveau District
Alberta iela and surrounds — a UNESCO-recognized concentration of Jugendstil façades.
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End
Freedom Monument
42-metre granite and copper monument honouring Latvian independence.
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