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Top places to visit in Riga

6 places worth your time in Riga, with what each is actually like and when to go.

Last updated 2026-08-11

1. Old Town

Old Town
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A UNESCO-listed centre of guild houses, the House of the Blackheads and Riga Cathedral.

Watch outBar and strip-club touts on the old-town streets; the bill-inflation pattern they lead to is the city's best-known tourist trap.

2. Art Nouveau district

Art Nouveau district
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Riga has more Jugendstil architecture than anywhere in Europe, concentrated on Alberta iela.

3. Central Market

Central Market
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Five zeppelin hangars turned into one of Europe's largest markets.

4. Freedom Monument

Freedom Monument
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The 1935 monument to independence, with an hourly guard change.

5. Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum

Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum
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More than a hundred relocated wooden buildings in pine forest by the lake.

6. Jurmala

Jurmala
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The Baltic beach resort half an hour west, with wooden villas and a long sand strand.

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