Email star2travel@thestar.com.my with the subject “Readers Share”. Riga, the capital of Latvia, is the largest city in the Baltic states in Europe, and the most vibrant and cosmopolitan.

It might not be the first place you think of when it comes to sun, sea and sand - but you can actually fly to a city with ...

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 ...

Architecture guide to Latvia's Riga, one of the world's greatest Art Nouveau cities Alison Stewart Updated November 5, 2019 — 9.16pmfirst published at 12.15am Normal text size Larger text size ...

With a medieval old town, art nouveau touches and vestiges of a Soviet past, the Latvian capital is a patchwork of a city that bears marks of its former occupiers. But a more modern Riga, of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shopaholics and food enthusiasts will find themselves spoilt for choice in Riga. The expansive central market, situated in ...

Riga is a welcoming, walkable city that’s awash with music, history, art and nightlife. Read our guide on how to make the most of a weekend in Latvia's hip capital.

Riga: The Occupation Museum of Latvia surveys the country’s centuries of tough treatment under streams of empires; the Art Nouveau Museum presents the restored Jugendstil interior of an ...

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.