In the heart of Riga’s Old Town, this boutique hotel mixes historic ... erected in 1935 to mark Latvia’s first period of independence. Its trees and lawns are equally alluring under a thick ...

This unique museum in the center of Old City Riga shares the story of what life ... and a must-do to better understand the history of Latvia. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m ...

Writer Graham Greene once hailed Riga the “Paris of the North” and it’s an epithet that has never rung truer. The Latvian capital – with its bountiful museums and galleries – is bathed ...

the three oldest stone houses in Riga. Just outside the old walls awaits the Freedom Monument: built to commemorate Latvia’s independence in the 1930s. Ironically, just a few years later ...

Riga – has been named as Europe’s best value city for a short break. According to the Post Office Travel Money City Costs ...

T.S.A. workers protect America’s transportation systems. Now their own protections are being stripped away.

Herbert Cukurs had a senior position in the Arajs Kommando, a Nazi death squad in German-occupied Latvia. In late 1941, he personally took part in mass murder at the Riga Ghetto and the nearby ...