The House of the Blackheads was bombed in WW2 and then fully destroyed during the Soviet regime. It was rebuilt between 1995 ...

The tiny, Baltic city of Riga is an underrated gem ... Wander around at your leisure, but make time to see the House of the Blackheads (itself a reconstruction after it was demolished by the ...

Riga is a place that knows how to celebrate ... spotting relics of the city’s medieval origins — including the ornate House of the Blackheads (a former guild house), the trio of historic ...

Graham Greene once hailed Riga as the ‘Paris of the North’ Credit: Alexandr Spatari The lavishly Gothic House of the Blackheads, revamped to celebrate Riga’s 800th, is perhaps the most ...

(Photo: Faranak Amidi with BBC Russian's Oksana Antonenko in front of Riga's historic House of the Blackheads. Credit: BBC) ...