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Riga

Riga is the capital of Latvia, located at the confluence of the Baltic Sea and the River Daugava. The center of this old city has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Riga is particularly known for its art nouveau architecture, and its buildings are widely believed to be the best example of this style in existence anywhere in the world. The cityscape of Riga is one of the most beautiful and recognizable in the world, with the Corm Cathedral, Riga Castle, and St. Peter’s Church, which has a tower that is over 400 feet high. Depending on where you are in the city, you might feel like you’re in the worlds’ most beautiful suburb, full of wide, shady streets and tree filled parks, or you might feel like you’d stepped back in time, to the middle ages, as you make your way down a cobbled street to a fruit stand or a cafe. With a population of approximately 750,000, it is neither a quaint village nor a surging metropolis; rather, it is a city that combines the best of the large and the small, the old and the new. Riga has been called in turn “The Paris of the North” and “The Paris of the Baltics”; being compared to Paris is quite an honor, and in this case appropriate, as it does have many similarities: it is the cultural center of it region, it is staggeringly beautiful, and has outstanding eateries and nightlife. There are museums throughout the city, from the “Arsenals” Fine Arts Museum to a museum of anatomy, to the Andrejs Upits Memorial Museum. You can explore the history of Latvia and Riga itself in these lovely museums. And, believe it or not, Riga is home to the Livu Water Park, the largest water park in Northern Europe. For the adventurers among you, there is bungee jumping off a bridge in the Gauja national park, and there are camping and canoeing expeditions as well. There are pubs, restaurants, and cafes everywhere, and an eclectic mixture of nightclubs and discos - there’s even a tour of some of the nightclubs in Riga!