Riga Old Town+Art Nouveau + Ethnographic Open-Air Museum

Art Nouveau district & Riga Old Town
Walk to Art Nouveau district. Riga is like a museum of architecture, covering the period from Gothicism to Classicism. But the real treasure of the city is the largest and best-preserved collections of Art Nouveau buildings in the world. This fact was corroborated by UNESCO in 1997 and now the central section of Riga is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Due to this, Riga is sometimes called the "capital" of Art Nouveau.
A walking tour through Riga Old Town by visiting the most remarkable sights like Dom Square and St. Dom Cathedral, where is placed one of the world's most valuable historic organs. Attend St. Jacobs Church and St. Peter's Church. The tour will take visitors to Riga Castle, which was founded in 1330 but today serves as the official residence of the President of Latvia as well as home for Museum of Latvian History and the Museum of Foreign Art. Great and Small Guild Halls, the fortification wall of Riga, the Swedish Gate, the building of Parliament, the Monument of Liberty. The Powder Tower and city walls will make you feel the breath of the medieval. But beautiful and elegant Blackheads House will delight lovers of glory.

Ethnographic Open-Air Museum (15 km one way)
The territory of Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia is stretched on the border of Riga, near the Juglas Lake. It is the oldest and the largest museum of that kind in Europe. It is founded in 1924. It occupies 97 ha. Historical buildings, household articles, instruments of labour, goods of folk master's of arts and crafts, which retail about the rural life of inhabitants of every corner of Latvia from XVI till XX century.

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