Latvia

We had a fun visit in the beautiful city of Riga. Riga was a major center of the Hanseatic League and became very prosperous in the 13th - 15th centuries. A renewed prosperity within the urban middle class at the turn of the last century led to a burst of modern architecture in the suburbs surrounding the old town. The boulevard city that grew up in the 1900's is Art Nouveau.













While the new, turn of the century, part of the city boasted wide boulevards the old city was made up of large squares with medieval churches accessed by narrow cobblestone streets.



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Location:Riga, Latvia