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Complete travel guide to Latvia. Handpicked places including waterfalls, mountain roads, thermal springs, UNESCO sites, scenic drives and hidden gems. All with GPS coordinates.
Towers and rooftops in burnt umber and copper, pressed together above cobblestone lanes that wind as they did in 1201. Riga's old town is Northern Europe's richest collection of medieval, Gothic and Art Nouveau architecture — 800 years of stories written in stone, wood and whitewashed facades.
GPS: 56.9496, 24.1052
Over 800 Art Nouveau buildings in one city — Riga has Europe's densest concentration of Jugendstil. Alberta iela alone holds eight lavish facades designed by Mikhail Eisenstein between 1901 and 1906. Masks, sphinxes and floral garlands in stone — each facade tells its own story.
GPS: 56.9589, 24.1112
An organ with 6,718 pipes fills the nave with a sound that vibrates in your chest. Riga Cathedral is the largest medieval church in the Baltics — founded 1211, expanded over six centuries, and still alive. The cloister is the finest in Northern Europe.
GPS: 56.9496, 24.1052
A Gothic confection of red and white with a St George figure above the entrance. The House of the Blackheads is Riga's most photographed building — originally from 1334, razed in 1941, rebuilt with surgical precision in 1999.
GPS: 56.9471, 24.1068
Five enormous halls built from converted Zeppelin hangars from World War I. Riga Central Market opened in 1930 and still serves 100,000 customers a day. The smell of smoked eel, fresh rye bread and Latvian honey mingles beneath the vaulted iron ceilings.
GPS: 56.9437, 24.1149
Riga's tallest church tower — 123 metres with an elevator to the viewing platform at 72 metres. St Peter's Church dates from 1209, but the tower was rebuilt after it burned down in 1941. The view over the old town's red rooftops and the Daugava river is Riga's most iconic panorama.
GPS: 56.9488, 24.1094
42 metres of granite and copper erected in 1935 to honour those who fell in Latvia's War of Independence. The Milda figure at the top holds three golden stars — one for each historical region: Kurzeme, Vidzeme and Latgale. Under Soviet occupation, laying flowers here was forbidden.
GPS: 56.9514, 24.1133
Three houses from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries squeezed together on Mazā Pils iela like a three-dimensional history of architecture. The oldest — no. 17 — dates from 1490 with a Gothic staircase and a single small window opening. Together they tell 300 years of building history in 15 metres of facade.
GPS: 56.9514, 24.1019
Riga's best-preserved 19th-century wooden house quarter — restored into a living cultural centre with a Saturday flea market, local craft breweries and open-air concerts in summer. Kalnciema iela is Riga without the tourism filter: real neighbourhood, colourful facades, slow time.
GPS: 56.9431, 24.0663
Latvia's oldest and largest national park — a 90 km river valley carved in Devonian sandstone, packed with medieval castles, caves and hiking trails winding between birch forest and golden cliffs. The Gauja valley is the Baltics' most beautiful autumn landscape.
GPS: 57.2689, 25.0667
A red-brick castle from 1214, raised by the Archbishop of Riga in the heart of the Gauja valley's dense deciduous forest. From the lookout tower, the entire valley unfolds like a painting in green and gold. The legend of the Rose of Turaida — a young woman who chose death over dishonour — is Latvia's most famous love story.
GPS: 57.1822, 24.8503
The power centre of the Livonian Order for 300 years — Cēsis medieval fortress from 1209 is one of the best-preserved ruins in the Baltics. You explore the dark cellars and towers with a lantern in hand. The 18th-century New Castle next door now houses art exhibitions.
GPS: 57.3128, 25.2715
A 1,020-metre cable car gliding 43 metres above the Gauja valley with views of medieval castles, sandstone cliffs and autumn forests in every shade of gold and rust. Sigulda is Latvia's "Little Switzerland" — with a bobsled track from the Winter Olympics programme and hiking trails on both valley slopes.
GPS: 57.1595, 24.8542
The largest cave in the Baltics — 18.8 metres deep, 12 metres high, carved in 400-million-year-old Devonian sandstone by a spring that still trickles. The walls are covered with inscriptions dating back to 1668. Legend says the water grants eternal love.
GPS: 57.1766, 24.8475
350-million-year-old Devonian sandstone carved by the Gauja river into golden cliffs and caves. Zvārte cliff stretches 47 metres along the riverbank and is Latvia's most impressive exposure of red sandstone. The entire valley is the Baltics' answer to a mini-Grand Canyon — but with moss, birch forest and silence.
GPS: 57.2400, 24.9700
The charming capital of Vidzeme on the Gauja river with a medieval castle ruin, Latvia's oldest theatre from 1919 and a café culture that surprises for a town of 25,000. Valmiera is the starting point for canoe trips down the Gauja and hiking in the surrounding forests.
GPS: 57.5389, 25.4264
The Versailles of the Baltics — 138 rooms, the golden hall with ceiling frescoes by Italian masters, and a Rococo staircase that spirals upward like solidified music. Rundāle Palace was designed in 1736 by Rastrelli, the same architect who designed the Winter Palace in St Petersburg.
GPS: 56.4130, 24.0237
Rundāle Palace's French baroque garden holds 2,200 roses in 80 varieties arranged in geometric parterres like a living carpet. In summer the intensity of scent is almost overwhelming. The garden was recreated in 2008 from original 1736 drawings.
GPS: 56.4145, 24.0258
Two castles in one: a Livonian Order ruin from 1443 and a Renaissance palace from 1596, joined like Siamese twins at the confluence of the Mūsa and Mēmele rivers. The lookout tower offers panoramic views across the Zemgale plains — Latvia's breadbasket.
GPS: 56.4083, 24.1842
The largest Baroque palace in the Baltics — 300 metres long, designed by Rastrelli for the Duke of Courland in 1738. It burned completely during World War II, but the facade was rebuilt. In the basement, 9 Dukes of Courland lie buried in tin coffins.
GPS: 56.6513, 23.7336
Europe's widest waterfall — 249 metres across the Venta river, but only 2 metres tall. Kuldīga is a UNESCO town with medieval cobbled streets, red rooftops and Latvia's longest brick bridge from 1874. In spring, salmon leap up the falls like silver arrows.
GPS: 56.9678, 21.9789
33 km of white sand beach along the Gulf of Riga — the Baltics' most fashionable seaside resort since the tsarist era. Jūrmala's wooden villas in Art Nouveau and Russian Empire style scatter between pine trees and dunes. Jomas iela pedestrian street has cafés and that particular Latvian summer smell of resin and saltwater.
GPS: 56.9747, 23.7857
A 3.4 km wooden boardwalk floats above an 8,000-year-old peat bog with dwarf pines, peat pools and misty flats as far as the eye can see. Ķemeri Great Bog is Latvia's most visited hiking trail and an entirely different planet: quiet, wet and timeless. Best at sunrise.
GPS: 56.9183, 23.4850
Where the Baltic Sea meets the Gulf of Riga in a visible waterline — waves from two seas collide at your feet. Cape Kolka is Latvia's northwesternmost point and home to the Livonian people, Europe's smallest ethnic minority with fewer than 200 people.
GPS: 57.7575, 22.5936
An abandoned Russian naval base from 1890 with a tsarist military prison you can sleep in. Karosta Cathedral with its golden domes stands among crumbling barracks and bunkers. Under the Soviets the entire district was closed to the public — today it's Europe's most atmospheric ghost quarter.
GPS: 56.5464, 21.0211
Northern Europe's only intact early 19th-century fortress — built 1810–1878 under the Russian tsars as defence against Napoleon. The massive bastions, moats and barracks cover an entire district of Latvia's second largest city. The Mark Rothko Museum sits inside the fortress.
GPS: 55.8865, 26.4951
Latvia's third-largest city with one of the Baltics' finest sandy beaches — 8 km of white sand and dunes right in the city centre. Liepāja is "the city where the wind is born" and has Latvia's wildest music scene. Concert hall Great Amber of glass and amber-coloured concrete is the city's new landmark.
GPS: 56.5110, 20.9907
Latvia's cleanest city with a Blue Flag beach as wide as a runway. Ventspils has colourful cow sculptures on the streets, an adventure park on the beach and an old Livonian Order castle from 1290. The city is deliberately Latvia's cleanest — and it shows.
GPS: 57.3942, 21.5614
The most important Catholic pilgrimage site in the Baltics — 300,000 believers make the journey here on 15 August each year to see the miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary. Basilica from 1780 in white Baroque, surrounded by Latvia's most untouched lake landscape. Pope John Paul II visited in 1993.
GPS: 56.1252, 27.0140
Latgale is "the land of blue lakes" — and Lake Rāzna is the crown. 57.56 km² of still water surrounded by hills, farms and Catholic chapels. Rāzna National Park has Latvia's most pristine nature and fewest tourists.
GPS: 56.3167, 27.4333
Latvia's most remote national park along the Livonian Coast — abandoned fishing villages, the Baltic's wild shoreline and untouched mixed forest. The Šlītere lighthouse from 1849 offers views above the tree canopy. The old Livonian fishing sheds are the last witnesses to a people on the brink of extinction.
GPS: 57.6289, 22.2917
The heart of Latgale — with the "Latgales Māra" monument from 1939 symbolising the region's unification with the rest of Latvia in 1920. Rēzekne is eastern Latvia's cultural centre with a lively bazaar, ruins of a Livonian castle from 1285 and views over the hilly blue-lake region.
GPS: 56.5097, 27.3341
Over 150 sculptures scattered across the hilly Abava valley landscape — from granite works to land art in natural materials. Pedvāle Open-Air Art Museum was founded in 1992 by artist Ojārs Feldbergs and stretches across 100 hectares along the Abava river.
GPS: 57.0667, 22.5167
A monumental Art Nouveau spa from 1936 in the heart of Ķemeri forest — now abandoned, with broken windows and birch trees growing through the roof. Ķemeri Spa was once the Soviet Union's most fashionable thermal bath. Now it is Europe's most beautiful ruin.
GPS: 56.9420, 23.4760
A Livonian Order fortress from 1301 in the flat Zemgale landscape. The knight order built it as a stronghold, with walls two metres thick. Now you sleep in the castle tower and dine in the medieval banquet hall with candlelight and wild boar on the menu.
GPS: 56.7305, 23.0216
Sleep in a real prison cell. Karosta in Liepāja was first a tsarist, then Soviet, then KGB prison. Now it is the only prison in the world that accepts guests — guards scream at you, you sleep on the bunk, and the food is prisoner rations. Check-in at 9 PM. Check-out at 7 AM. No complaints.
GPS: 56.5463, 21.0210
An entire Soviet military town — apartment blocks, school, cinema, sports hall — completely abandoned since 1998. Skrunda-1 in Kurzeme was home to a giant radar station. When the Russians left the base, they simply walked away. The clock in the schoolyard stopped. Everything else remains as they left it.
GPS: 56.7266, 21.9942
Thousands of stone cairns stacked among the trees in a silent forest in Zemgale. Nobody knows who placed them, when, or why. Pokaiņi Forest is Latvia's most mysterious place — locals say compasses behave strangely in here, and dogs refuse to enter.
GPS: 56.5719, 23.0751
For 30 years, guests above in the sanatorium suspected nothing. Beneath them lay a fully equipped Soviet nuclear bunker for the Latvian party leadership — with a command centre, communications room, and supplies for weeks. The Ligatne bunker is the coldest war you can visit.
GPS: 57.2560, 25.0680
Soviet concrete fortifications rise from the beach sand like enormous grey whales. Liepāja's Northern Forts are a beach where you swim with bunkers as backdrop — and the sand squeaks under your shoes as you walk. Half war monument, half bathing beach, entirely surreal.
GPS: 56.5937, 21.0160