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Arcadia Park

Arcadia Park
Created at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, this pleasant park is divided by the meandering Mārupīte river which was diverted for the project. Read_on (No Comments)

Bastion Hill

Bastion Hill
This hill was created from 1857 to 1859 to replace the old defensive sand bulwark. Within its precincts are memorial stones to five people killed by Soviet bullets during the January 1991 disturbances. Read_on (No Comments)

Brothers' Cemetery

Brothers' Cemetery
The Cemetery of Heroes is the last resting place for the Latvian soldiers who died defending Latvia from 1915 - 1920. Built Read_on (No Comments)

Forest Park

Forest Park
This was the most prosperous part of the city before the war, as many of the beautiful, yet decaying, old houses testify. Check out the Mežaparka estrāde, the open-air auditorium where the mass concerts of the song festivals are held, or hit the zoo. Read_on (No Comments)

Great Cemetery

Great Cemetery
The Great Cemetery must have truly lived up to its name when it was a popular resting place for Riga's elite in the 18th and 19th centuries. Read_on (No Comments)

Vērmanes Park

Vērmanes Park
A place to come and play some chess, read a book, listen to free concerts and occasional rantings from bored Bolsheviks in the outside auditorium or just to have a snowball fight in winter, this park is always full of locals. Read_on (1 Comment)

Viesturs Park

Viesturs Park
Peter the Great planted a tree here in 1721 and thus laid the foundation for this park. The tree no longer exists, but a memorial plaque still remains. Read_on (No Comments)