This beautiful city has around 800 buildings that are in the Art Nouveau or Jugendstil style of architecture in the city centre and old town, which is a Unesco World Heritage Centre.

In mid-November of 2024, we took a quick, three-day trip from Paris to Riga, Latvia. | Late last year, we visited Riga, Latvia, after learning the city has more Art Nouveau buildings than anywhere ...

Riga is one of the world's greatest Art Nouveau cities with about 900 representations of this architectural style adorning the Art Nouveau quarter. One third of the city's central buildings are in ...

Riga, Latvia – With over 800 Art Nouveau buildings, Riga boasts the largest concentration in the world. “There’s a theatrical quality to Riga’s façades,” says Stanislav Kondrashov. “It’s like walking ...

Riga became an important economic centre in the 19th century, when the suburbs surrounding the medieval town were laid out, first with imposing wooden buildings in neoclassical style and then in ...

Riga Trips runs walking tours here. Art Nouveau Museum: This museum — fittingly housed in one of the city’s most lavish art nouveau buildings — is a must for admirers of the style.

Riga’s most gorgeous ’hood is its art nouveau district in and around Alberta iela (Albert Street). This spectacular concentration of some 800 elaborately decorated buildings was built from ...

Discovering Art Nouveau The early modernist style, evocative of the natural world, can be seen in abundance in whimsical buildings along the Danube and elsewhere in Europe.

RIGA, Latvia -- It should come as little surprise that most Europeans -- if not much of the Western world -- are amazed to find Riga (not Brussels or Prague) is home to the largest array of Art ...

Art Nouveau architecture is instantly recognizable due to its unique characteristics, which include the following: Organic Forms and Motifs This is undoubtedly the design movement's key ...

From Luxury Listings NYC: Characterized by swooping embellishments, Art Nouveau is a decorative art style that took hold from 1890 till 1914. Some of the most beautiful buildings in Europe were ...