Latvia

Latvia’s capital city Riga is the biggest metropolis in the Baltics. Riga welcomes with amazing architecture and history, where the timeless Gothic style buildings in the Old Town mix with the fantastic facades of one of the world’s richest collections of Art Nouveau buildings on the grand boulevards.  Riga is a UNESCO World Heritage site with cobblestone streets and breathtaking river views. Riga is also an adventure for the taste buds.  The enormous and unique Central Market is one of Europe’s biggest markets. It is famed for its pavilions housed in giant zeppelin hangars left behind by the German army after World War I. This market is a treasure trove of all kind of authentic Latvian food - sausages, cheese and black bread, smoked fish and different kind of pastries 

Latvia’s territory is over 50% covered by forest. Latvia is a very green country. The west coast of Latvia is covered with kilometers long lovely pine forests. Locals love to pick mushrooms and all kind of berries in the forest, and at Midsummer young couples duck into the woods to look for the mythical flowering fern. Many options are available for green tourism from simple walks in the Natural Parks and Latvia’s bogs for bird-watchers, hunters and just nature lovers.

Latvia’s capital Riga hides over 800 well-preserved Art Nouveau buildings. Riga is considered to be Northern European’s Art Nouveau Capital. Central Riga, the downtown area, is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List thanks to its medieval dwellings, 19th century wooden structures and its prime examples of unique Art Nouveau architecture. Alberta iela is a street almost entirely created by Art Nouveau genius Mikhail Eisenstein. The multi-floor building housing the Art Nouveau Museum (Alberta iela 12) main trademark is its grandiose and challenging central spiral staircase.