A long resort town on a 33 km sandy beach along the Gulf of Riga, lined with pine forest and wooden villas from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Jomas iela, in Majori, is the pedestrian heart of the town.
The beach is wide and shallow, good for families. Kemeri National Park, with a raised bog boardwalk, is at its western end. It's 30 minutes by train from Riga.
The largest city in the Baltics, with a UNESCO-listed medieval old town, including the House of the Blackheads, St Peter's Church, whose tower you ca…
A magnificent baroque palace designed by Rastrelli, the architect of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, for the Duke of Courland in the 18th century.
A national park along the Gauja River valley, with sandstone cliffs, caves and forests, called the 'Switzerland of Latvia'.
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