Years later, when the man died, the gold coins were used to build Riga. This beautiful city has around 800 buildings that are in the Art Nouveau or Jugendstil style of architecture in the city ...

It is generally recognized that Riga has the finest collection of art nouveau buildings in Europe. Description is available under license CC-BY-SA IGO 3.0 Riga was een belangrijk centrum van het Hanze ...

and prior to the trip we learned that Riga has more Art Nouveau buildings than anywhere else in the world. The flight was 2 hours and 40 minutes from Charles de Gaulle Airport to Riga, and the ...

Art nouveau district: Many of Riga’s 800-plus art nouveau buildings are concentrated north of the old town. Some of the most audacious are on Elizabetes iela and Alberta iela, with the most ...

THE PEITAV SYNAGOGUE is the only shul in Riga to survive the war. (credit: @MarkDavidPod ) National museums, historic buildings ... Wilhelm Neumann in an art nouveau style. It’s a bright ...

I’ve stumbled across Art Nouveau buildings in all sorts of unlikely places, and wherever I find them it lifts my spirits like no other architectural style. There are lots in Riga, the capital of ...

Now we come to think of it, Riga may even deserve a list all to itself. Art Nouveau architecture makes up roughly one third of all the buildings in Latvian capital’s centre, making it the ...

The city centre boasts more than 800 art nouveau buildings, dating from the early ... This is the other great thing about Riga — you can stroll its peaceful streets with ease because, like ...

Now we come to think of it, Riga may even deserve a list all to itself. Art Nouveau architecture makes up roughly one third of all the buildings in Latvian capital’s centre, making it the largest ...