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Rīga

Hanseatic spires and a city of Art Nouveau.

8 musea
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Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states: a medieval old town on the Daugava and streets full of Art Nouveau faces and dragons.

Musea in Rīga

Kijk binnen en betaal je entree rechtstreeks aan het museum.

Het verhaal van Rīga

Walk the old town from the House of the Blackheads to the Dome Cathedral and the Three Brothers, the oldest houses of Riga. Climb St Peter's tower for the view. Then go to the Quiet Centre to see the Art Nouveau facades of Alberta iela and the Art Nouveau Museum. See Latvian art at the National Museum of Art, and visit the Central Market in five old Zeppelin hangars. Take the bus to the Open-Air Museum by Lake Jugla for a half day in the countryside.

  • c. 1/3of the buildings in central Riga are Art Nouveau
  • 1997the historic centre on the UNESCO list

Rīga door de tijd

De grote momenten, en waar je ze vandaag ziet.

  1. 1201Riga is founded.Zie het: Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation
  2. 1510The first decorated Christmas tree, Riga says.Zie het: Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation
  3. 1989The Baltic Way.Zie het: Latvian Occupation Museum

Wat te doen in Rīga

  1. 01

    Latvian National Museum of Art

    Latvian painting in a 1905 palace of art.

    Riga2 hours
  2. 02

    Art Nouveau Museum

    A real Art Nouveau flat with a painted staircase.

    Riga1 hour
  3. 03

    Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum

    Old farms and churches by a lake.

    Riga3 hours
  4. 04

    Latvian Occupation Museum

    The years of Soviet and Nazi rule.

    Riga1 to 2 hours
Zo kom je er

Op weg naar Rīga

Van het vliegveld naar het centrum met het openbaar vervoer, en daarna de treinen en lokale lijnen naar de musea.

Aankomen met het vliegtuig

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Reizen door Rīga

Lijnen en dienstregelingen veranderen. Kijk voor vertrek op de site van de vervoerder.

Op de kaart

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Verborgen verhaal

Market in the hangars

Riga's Central Market sits in Zeppelin hangars.

Lees het verhaalSluiten

The five huge halls of the Central Market were built in the 1920s from the steel frames of German Zeppelin hangars from the First World War. Today they are full of fish, cheese, bread and pickles, and the market and the old town are on the UNESCO list together.