Riga is compact enough to cross on foot in an afternoon, yet its public transport network is genuinely impressive once you start relying on it. Rīgas satiksme, the city-owned operator, runs one of the...
Tallinn, Rīga and Vilnius sit within a few hundred kilometres of each other, yet no single transport system ties the three together in one smooth hop. There is still no finished high-speed rail line j...
Riga is Latvia’s capital and the largest city in the Baltic states, a former Hanseatic League trading port that grew rich on the Daugava River’s route to the Baltic Sea. Its medieval Old T...
Riga International Airport (RIX) is the busiest airport in the Baltic states and the main air gateway into Latvia, handling more scheduled routes and passengers each year than Tallinn or Vilnius. For ...
Riga’s Christmas market fills Dome Square (Doma laukums), the wide cobbled plaza beneath the twin spires of Riga Cathedral at the heart of the Latvian capital’s Old Town. Latvia’s of...
Riga sits where the Daugava River meets the Gulf of Riga, and pairs its UNESCO-listed Art Nouveau old town with the Baltic Sea and dense inland forests only a short journey away. Unlike some capitals ...
Riga sits on the Daugava River close to the Baltic Sea, and for a growing number of travellers the first Latvian ground they touch is not the airport but the deck of a cruise ship. The city’s cr...
