Culture
As one of the cities on the UNESCO
World Heritage List the city of Riga is proud to offer a rich cultural environment.
Riga has been a cultural centre in the Baltic States for decades and the culture life is today flourishing as never before. The city presents experiences for every taste in art, music, theatre or design and
a broad range of cultural activities all year around.
Our Music Festivals has an national reputation for its variation and high standard and offers cultural happenings
for all ages! Every year Riga hosts large international cultural festivals, the largest is the National Song and Folk dance festival that is held every 4 years with more than 30,000 participants and attracts tourists from around the world.
In Riga you find a lot of professional theatres as well as amateur drama and theatre groups, the Latvia National Opera, Latvia Philharmonic Orchestra, concert halls and several art galleries that give you a taste of the cultural life not only in Riga but the whole of Latvia. You will also find more than 40 different museums, like the popular State Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation, Latvian Museum of Nature, Museum of Decorative Applied Arts and the Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia. |
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