Visit Riga - Top 10 Things which can be done in Riga. What you can visit in Riga - Most visited touristic attractions of Riga Visit our Channel for Top Attractions: www.youtube.com/user/talancuta Please Subscribe to our Channel: www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=talancuta 01. St. Peter's Church A Lutheran church dedicated to Saint Peter. A parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia. The history of the church can be divided into three distinct periods: two associated with Gothic and Romanesque building styles, the third with the early Baroque period. 02. Freedom Monument A memorial honouring soldiers killed during the Latvian War of Independence (1918–1920). Considered an important symbol of the freedom, independence, and sovereignty of Latvia. UUnveiled in 1935, the 42-metre high monument of granite, travertine, and copper. Serves as the focal point of public gatherings and official ceremonies in Riga. 03. Latvian Ethnographic Open Air Museum An open-air museum, situated in a forest park area beside a lake just outside the capital, with farmers village houses, moved from different districts of the country. Established in 1924, inspired by open-air museums in Scandinavia. The plan was to establish a farm from the four regions, Courland, Zemgale, Vidzeme and Latgale, supplied by buildings representing different crafts. 04. Vērmanes Garden The oldest public garden in the city of Riga. Comprises an area of approximately 5 hectares. A granite obelisk was erected 1829 in the park as a posthumous memorial to Anna Wöhrmann. The memorial was dismantled prior to World War II and recreated 2000. 05. Nativity Cathedral The largest Orthodox cathedral in the Baltic provinces built with the blessing of the Russian Tsar Alexander II. Built to a design by Nikolai Chagin in a Neo-Byzantine style between 1876 and 1883, during the period when the country was part of the Russian Empire. In the early 1960s, Soviet authorities closed down the cathedral and converted its building into a planetarium. 06. Riga Motor Museum The biggest antique vehicle museum in the Baltic countries. Was founded in 1989. Since 1992 it is a state museum. One of the most significant exhibits in the museum is the 1938 Auto Union racing car Type D, which was saved from cutting into scrap by Viktors Kulbergs, president of Antique Automobile Club of Latvia. 07. Riga Zoo A city-owned zoo. Located in Mežaparks, on the western bank of Ķīšezers lake. Riga Zoo houses around 4000 animals of nearly 500 species and is visited by 250-300,000 visitors annually. Has an area of 135 hectares (330 acres). 08. Riga Aviation Museum An aviation museum in Riga. Located in the grounds of Riga International Airport and is regularly open for public viewing. Was established in 1956 by Victor Talpa, who worked for the Latvian Civil Aviation Administration, but it was privatised in 1997. 09. Museum of the Occupation of Latvia An historic educational institution. Was established in 1993 to exhibit artifacts, archive documents, and educate the public about the 51-year period in the 20th century when Latvia was successively occupied by the USSR in 1940, then by Nazi Germany in 1941, and then again by the USSR in 1944. 10. Latvian Railway History Museum A railway museum in Riga. Was established on August 30, 1994 and contains more than a thousand items, documents and photographs related to railway communications and signalling equipment, tools and instruments, uniforms and badges. Visit our Channel for Top Attractions: www.youtube.com/user/talancuta Please Subscribe to our Channel: www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=talancuta Download this music at: soundcloud.com/thisnameisafail/thisnameisafail-lost-1 This track's license, Creative Commons Attribution, requires attribution. If you use this song in a video, cite the creator using the info below: soundcloud.com/thisnameisafail/thisnameisafail-lost-1 Lost (Original Mix) (Free Download In Description)" by ThisNameIsAFail is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. More info about the license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Visit Music For Monetize Channel: www.youtube.com/user/MusicForMonetize

Be the first to comment