RIGA: Art Nouveau to the Latvian
The more sober of the three, the most obscure and unknown, the most confusing and most forgotten,
Riga is part of the Baltic trio of wonders, together with Vilnius and Tallinn, up there in that piece of green land and blue, just freedom from oppression and finally free.
While the two sisters are inextricably medieval
Riga joined by his past as a Hanseatic city, devoting heart and soul to the twentieth century, to art nouveau, the drops Liberty to `compulsive excess of decorative elements, from classicism to a thousand pompado ... all in a world of medieval port, with its beautiful Protestant churches, castles and Gothic art forgotten.
Here, where the Teutonic Knights made the beautiful and ugly time, after years of invasions and sopprusi here as squares Estonian and Lithuanian, Latvian people fell to revel that back in 1991 to celebrate its second independence after the brief war between the two.
Line is 50% Russian, in the streets, in the language, with poor Latvian is now lost in the maze of history, stifled by the Russian, cuisine and customs. It is the Russian city of the three, but even the most wacky and fun, the richest and Europe, the most cosmopolitan in the van.
Do not miss the route to Tallinn, this beautiful green city, river port, a jewel of art nouveau, Art Nouveau and proud example of the new
Latvia.