This is a tour of Riga Latvia. In this Riga travel guide we explore the old town and along the riverfront. Riga is an easy ...

It’s 6 PM in early autumn, and the streets of Old Town Riga are bustling. Diners fill outdoor patios lined with colorful flower boxes, and the sound of laughter floats past me in the cool evening ...

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 ...

Look skyward while walking around Riga and you will be rewarded with glimpses of fanciful architectural flourishes. Roughly 40 percent of the buildings in this port city were built in the Art Nouveau ...

In central Riga, people are laying flowers beneath the Freedom Monument. It's a green statue of a woman holding three gold stars on top of a 42-metre stone pillar at the end of a broad, busy street.

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 ...

One hundred years ago, a treaty now forgotten by many was signed in the Latvian capital, Riga. It formally ended an undeclared war between Poland, just reemerging on the map after being wiped out ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The qualification stage opened today (22 September), covering two plots on the ambitious airport estate project.