Maskavas Forštate, Avotu Iela & Grīziņkalns

Rīga Ghetto & Latvian Holocaust Museum

Maskavas Forštate, Avotu Iela & Grīziņkalns

The centrepiece of this arresting and challenging museum is a wooden house with a reconstructed flat, like those that Jews had to move into when the Nazis…

Rīga Central Market

Maskavas Forštate, Avotu Iela & Grīziņkalns

Haggle for your huckleberries at this vast market, housed in a series of WWI Zeppelin hangars and spilling outdoors as well. It's an essential Rīga…

Latvian Academy of Science Observation Deck

Maskavas Forštate, Avotu Iela & Grīziņkalns

This Stalinesque tower is a not-so-welcome Soviet-era present from Moscow, which has seven towers just like it, only bigger. Construction of what is often…

Holocaust Memorial

Maskavas Forštate, Avotu Iela & Grīziņkalns

This moving Holocaust Memorial is on the site of a large 1871 synagogue that was burned to the ground on 4 July, 1941 during WWII, with the entire…

Jēzus Baznīca

Maskavas Forštate, Avotu Iela & Grīziņkalns

It would be a classical-style Lutheran church like many others if it wasn't made entirely of wood, which makes it a unique architectural gem that…