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Latvia
City Guide
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Latvia Travel Guide
PRACTICAL INFORMATION: Oficial name: Republic of Latvia
Capital: Riga
Language: Latvian
Currency: Lats (LS)
Religión: Evangelical Lutheranism 55.2% Roman Catholicism 24.5% Russian Orthodox 9%
Latvia Sights and Museums
WHAT TO SEE:
Riga:
Walking around the streets of Riga, by swirling Art Nouveau architecture and warm bars with candles flickering in the windows. Just as you can't take the Old Town's beauty any longer, you look up to a bewitching skyline of castle turrets and church steeples.
Sigulda:
This enchanted town stands on the southern edge of a picturesque, steep-sided, wooded section of the Gauja Valley and is spanned by a string of medieval castles and legend-laden caves. Known locally as the 'Switzerland of Latvia', Sigulda is a minor health resort and a winter sports centre - with an Olympic bobsled run snaking down into the valley.
Aglona Basilica:
Aglona Basilica is Latvia's most important pilgrimage site and the leading Roman Catholic shrine in the nation. The church was built in 1699, but it's since been engulfed by an enormous courtyard that was created for Pope John Paul II's visit in 1993.
One of the basilica's 10 altars guards a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary, said to have saved Aglona from the plague in 1708.
Every year on Ascension Day (15 August) pilgrims gather here. A candlelight procession the night before precedes the religious celebration.
Latvian Occupation Museum:
It gives an impressive account of the Soviet and Nazi occupations of Latvia between 1940 and 1991. It is both informative and disturbing.
Latvia Entertainment
EVENTS: There are so many changes in annual calendar, the best thing is to check this web before you book the fly:
http://www.eventguide.lv
Here you can find everything about events, sports, cultural, music festivals etc.
Sometimes it’s difficult find a fix list of annual events in these kind of cities.
You can see the big number of events there are every year, that’s nice because is for everybody.
Latvia Transports
TRANSPORTS: Riga's Public transport system consists of buses, trams, trolley buses and minibuses. They run daily from 5:30 till approximately 23:30. Some routes have a night service every hour.
Tickets are bought on board and cost 20 santimes. Cards valid for one month of travel can be bought at most kiosks and from konduktors on board.
For 20 - 30 santims you can take the minibus. You can find minibus terminal next to the Central Railway station and the Main Post office. In the streets of Riga minibuses stop only if you rais your hand.
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