Now, there’s a fresh name joining the circuit: the inaugural Riga Art Week – RAW, as its punchy acronym suggests. While Riga’s contemporary art scene is more compact than its European counterparts, ...

News that struck some like a bolt from the blue and for others was a long-awaited decision: on October 30, 2025, the bronze figure of Field Marshal Michael Barclay de Tolly was dismantled from the ...

Planning a summer getaway to Europe, but you're a bit taken aback by the inflated prices? Be it simply the overwhelming ...

If you are looking for a city break on a budget this summer, consider some of Eastern Europe’s culture-rich capitals. A new report by the UK’s Post Office has ranked the top 10 cities in ...

THE capital of Latvia - Riga - has been named as Europe's best ... Riga is known for having beautiful buildings, a pretty cobbled Old Town and a number of spires littered across the skyline.

Riga is renowned for its Art Nouveau buildings. Credit: Henryk Sadura After spending much of the 20th century being dominated by Germany, and then the Soviet Union, Latvia hasn’t looked back ...

On the r/travel forum user u/RainbowCrown71 asked: ‘What are some beautiful cities that ... A few Redditors were reluctant to mention Riga, the capital of Latvia, worried it might not fly ...

I’ll be honest, before I started looking into living in Latvia I couldn’t have named a single city or located it on a map.

President Alar Karis joined his Latvian counterpart President Edgars Rinkevicš in opening Estonia's new embassy building in Riga on Wednesday ... This reflects how important Latvia is to us." "This is ...

“This is a great and historic day for Latvia! And we will all need time to understand what happened, because something big and beautiful occurred ... spells out “RIGA” with the black ...

RIGA, Latvia (AP ... “This is a great and historic day for Latvia! And we will all need time to understand what happened, because something big and beautiful occurred!” ...