Excursion to Old Riga including Art Nouveau buildings
Art Nouveau
style in Riga usually is associated with beautiful buildings in so called Calm
centre, but actually there are a lot of gorgeous buildings of this style also
in Old Riga. This is not surprising because in this part of city lived the wealthiest
inhabitants of Riga, who wished to own beautiful and modern houses. Old Riga
also was the Latvian financial centre, and there were built a lot of representative
buildings of banks, insurance companies and stock exchange.
During excursion
we visit all the most important objects of old Riga- Blackheads house, St.
Peters church, Convent Yard, St.Johns church and yard, dwelling houses complex Three
brothers, Dome church, Riga defence wall an Powder tower, St. Jacobs Church. We
also visit the most interesting Art Nouveau buildings.
Duration of
excursion – approximately 2,5 hours.