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5 Charming Places Not To Miss In Riga, Latvia Latvia’s capital city Riga offers magnetic cathedrals to opera and fresh food markets to one-of-akind car museum is everything you need to make your trip a memorable one. This city is ready to make you smile! With over 800 years of history, the city possesses a timeless charm. This beautiful city has been recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage site, and Old Riga is the soul and heart of Latvia’s capital. Latvia has built some marvelous and unique places to visit due to which famous figures from Richard Wagner to Peter the Great spent time here. Riga with its endless tourism offers architectural masterpieces such as the House of Blackheads, romantic cobblestone lanes, many magnificent churches and many more.
Here are some remarkable places to visit in Riga: St Peter’s church Even with numerous churches and cathedrals, the view from Riga’s St Peter’s church is unbeatable. There is an availability of old crowded lift and flight of stairs to reach the top, from where you can adore the cobbled streets and red roofs of the Old Riga Town. We would recommend you to hire a rental car from the international airport itself and wander through the beautiful roads of the town. Sun Museum If you are up for visiting a unique place and interested to learn something about astronomy, you must visit The Sun Museum. It’s a museum exclusively dedicated to explain to you how different countries and cultures view the sun. Sun Museum is a fascinating place to visit for attaining some unexpected astronomical learning. It’s an out of the box place to visit in Riga with your rental car. Central Market One of the significant advantages of car hire Riga is the comfort of traveling to your favorite places and the choice to spend as much time at any place. The Central Market in Riga is one such place, which would demand hours of your day to shop and get a real Riga experience. The Riga Central Market is housed in a series of WWI Zeppelin hangars (that itself is amazing isn’t it!) and is now spilling outdoors as well. It’s an astonishing place to visit the largest market in Europe and find unexpected treasures of oneself.
Blackheads House With a historical past, the original house was built back in 1344 as an acute fraternity house for the Blackheads guild of unmarried merchants. But it was decimated in 1941, and seven years later it was flattened by the Soviets. However, the original blueprints of the house survived, as a result, a similar replica of the historical house was erected again in 2001 on Riga’s 800th birthday. Black Balsam Of Riga Riga possesses its special traditional drink in liqueur form, which is crafted with several different plants mixed in vodka. With its historical background and medicinal taste, legends say when Russian Empress Catherine II was on tour to Latvia, she became ill and was only cured by drinking Riga’s Black Balsam. Although there is no evidence to support this story, nevertheless it would be a pity to leave the experience of this unique drink. Source: https://medium.com/@kristian_90344/5-charming-places-not-to-miss-in-riga-latvia-9ecb51f48d1e