Riga - a cultural centre
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.
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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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