Riga Old Town +Art Nouveau walking tour

Riga Old Town
A walking tour through Riga Old Town seeing remarkable
sites like St.Peter's Church with its famous rooster,
St.Jacobs Church, Dom Square and Dom Cathedral,
home to one of the world's most valuable historic organs.
The Powder Tower and city walls will make you feel the
breath of the medieval. The guide will tell you about the
oldest stone residential dwellings in Riga, the Three
Brothers, the Great and Small Guilds, and the fortification
wall of Riga with the Swedish Gate the last surviving gate
in the wall. The guide will introduce you to the intriguing story of the Cat House and show
you Town Hall Square with the beautiful and elegant Blackheads House. The tour will
take visitors to Riga Castle founded in 1330, the Parliament, the Monument of Liberty
and fantastic Riga`s Opera House.
Art Nouveau district
Walk to Art Nouveau district. Riga is like a museum of
architecture, covering periods from Gothic to Classicism. But
the real treasure of the city is the largest and best-preserved
collection 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. Riga is sometimes called the "capital" of Art Nouveau
thanks to the heritage of 800 buildings of Art Nouveau. The
exteriors of the Art Nouveau buildings are imaginatively
decorative and won`t leave guests incurious or without an
opinion. After the tour optionally you can visit Art Nouveau Museum (6EUR pp, closed on Mondays).

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