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Cityscape

* The Lutheran cathedral, the largest church in the Baltic states. Built in the 13th century, it was modified several times in its history. It has a magnificent organ that dates from 1844. * Riga Castle (RÄ«gas Pils), which houses the Museum of Latvian History and the Museum of Foreign Art, and the president's official residence. * Saint Peter's Church, Riga, with its 123 m (404 ft) high tower. * St. John's Church, a small 13th-century chapel, behind Saint Peter's Church. * The Powder Tower (Pulvertornis), the only tower that remains from the original city walls. The Latvian Museum of War is located inside. * St James's Roman Catholic cathedral. * Wooden architecture. * Ethnographic Open-Air Museum (BrÄ«vdabas Muzejs), houses, farm buildings, and church representing rural life going back hundreds of years. Situated along Jugla Lake (Juglas Ezers). * The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, which documents the seizure and occupation of Latvia by various invaders from 1940 to 1991. * Art Nouveau architecture on Central Riga streets such as Alberta and Elizabetes iela. * Riga Radio and TV Tower - the third highest tower in Europe. * Riga Motor Museum - collection of retro motorcycles and automobiles, including some of the first motorcycles and remants of the Soviet era, for example, Brezhnev's and Stalin's armored limousines with waxworks of these political figures. Located in Mežciems. * Riga Zoo and Mežaparks (Forest Park) with a Ferris wheel. * Riga Circus â€” the only permanently situated circus in the Baltic States. * Riga Museum of History and Navigation - one of the largest and oldest museums in Latvia and Baltic states. * VÄ“rmanes Garden - the oldest public garden in Riga.

Climate

The climate of Riga is in between maritime and humid continental. The coldest months are January and February, when the average temperature is -6°C but temperatures as low as -20°C to -25°C can be observed almost every year on the coldest days. Due to the proximity of the sea autumn rains and fogs are frequent. Continuous snow cover may last eighty days. The summers in Riga are warm and humid with the average temperature of 18°C, while the temperature on the hottest days usually exceed 30°C.

Demographics

With 719,613 inhabitants in 2008, Riga is the largest city in the Baltic States, though its population has decreased since 1991.[20] Notable causes include emigration and low fertility rates. Some have estimated that the population may fall by as much as 50% by 2050.[21] According to the 2008 data, ethnic Latvians make up 42.3% of the population of Riga, with the percentage of ethnic Russians at 41.7%, Belarusians at 4.3%, Ukrainians at 3.9%, Poles at 2.0%, and others ethnicities at 5.8%.[22] By comparison, 59% of Latvia's inhabitants are ethnic Latvians, 28.5% are Russians, 3.8% are Belarusians, 2.5% are Ukrainians, 2.4% are Polish, 1.4% are Lithuanians and the remaining 2.4% are accounted for by other ethnicities (2006).[22] Upon restoration of Latvian independence in 1991, Soviet-era migrants (and any of their offspring born before 1991) were not automatically granted Latvian citizenship. Some have emigrated; this partially accounts for the recent decline in Riga's population. As a result of this repatriation of some Soviet-era migrants, the proportion of ethnic Latvians in Riga has increased from 36.5% in 1989 to 42.3% in 2007. In contrast the percentage of Russians has fallen from 47.3% to 42.1% in the same time period. Latvians overtook Russians as the largest ethnic group in 2006,[23] even though many inhabitants mainly speak Russian.

Description

Riga (Latvian: RÄ«ga, pronounced [riːɡa]( listen)) is the capital of Latvia, a major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial center of the Baltics, and an important seaport, situated on the mouth of the Daugava. With 715,978 inhabitants (2009)[1] it is the largest city of the Baltic states and third-largest in the Baltic region, behind Saint Petersburg and Stockholm (counting residents within the city limits). Riga's territory covers 307.17 km² (118.6 mi²). About a third of the area's population resides within city limits â€” approximately 1.5 million people total live in Riga and its surrounding suburbs (including adjoining townships), accounting for nearly half of Latvia's entire population. Riga's historical center has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the city is particularly notable for its extensive Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) architecture, which UNESCO considers to be unparalleled anywhere in the world.[2]

Economy

Business and leisure travel to Riga have increased significantly in recent years due to improved infrastructure. Most tourists travel to Riga by air via Riga International Airport, the largest airport in the Baltic states, which was renovated and modernized in 2001 on the occasion of Riga's 800th anniversary. In the near future, the face of Riga will undergo notable changes. The construction of a new landmark â€” the Latvian National Library building â€” began in the autumn of 2007 and is due to be built by 2010.[10] Currently discussions are underway in Riga council about the development of the central areas on the left bank of the Daugava. The major dispute surrounds plans to build skyscrapers in Ķīpsala, which UNESCO warned "could seriously endanger the status of the Historic Centre of Riga as a World Heritage Site."[11] The construction of 3 buildings in Ķīpsala has already started â€” the Da Vinci complex (25 floors) and two high-rises called Z-Towers (30 floors).[12][13] Almost all important Latvian financial institutions are located in Riga, including the Bank of Latvia, which is Latvia's central bank. Foreign commercial trade through Riga has been on the increase in recent years and received new impetus on May 1, 2004 when Latvia became a member of the European Union. Riga accounts for about half of the total industrial output of Latvia, focusing on the financial sector, public utilities, food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, wood processing, printing and publishing, textiles and furniture, and communications equipment manufacturing. More than 50% of Latvian companies are registered in Riga region.[14] The port of Riga is an important cargo shipping center. It is the main all-weather port in the Baltic and is expected to grow in the next few years due to increased trade with other ex-Soviet states and China.

History

Riga is located on the site of an ancient settlement of the Livonians, an ancient Finnic tribe, at the junction of the Daugava and the Riga River, at one point forming a natural harbor called the Riga Lake, neither of which exist today.[3] It is supposed that the city has got her name from the ancient river *Ringa, formerly flowed in place of nowadays Riga city canal. The river name *Ringa means 'the winding river'. [4] Likely Ringa was the oldest name of Riga city. The modern founding of Riga is regarded by historians to have begun with the arrival of German traders, mercenaries and religious crusaders in the second half of the 12th century, attracted by a sparsely populated region, potential new markets and by the missionary opportunities to convert the local population to Christianity. German merchants established an outpost for trading with the Balts near the Liv settlement at Riga in 1158. The Augustinian monk Meinhard built a monastery there ca. 1190. Bishop Albert was proclaimed Bishop of Livonia by his uncle Hartwig of Uthlede, Prince-Archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg in 1199. He landed in Riga in 1201 with 23 ships and more than 1500 armed crusaders, making Riga his bishopric. He established the Order of Livonian Brothers of the Sword (later a branch of the Teutonic Knights) and granted Riga city rights in 1225.[5] Riga served as a gateway to trade with the Baltic tribes and with Russia. In 1282 Riga became a member of the Hanseatic League. The Hansa was instrumental in giving Riga economic and political stability, thus providing the city with a strong foundation which endured the political conflagrations that were to come, down to modern times. As the influence of the Hansa waned, Riga became the object of foreign military, political, religious and economic aspirations. Riga accepted the Reformation in 1522, ending the power of the archbishops. In 1524, a venerated statue of the Virgin Mary in the Cathedral was denounced as a witch, and given a trial by water in the Daugava River. The statue floated, so it was denounced as a witch and burnt at Kubsberg.[6] With the demise of the Teutonic Knights in 1561, Riga for twenty years had the status of a Free Imperial City, then in 1581, Riga came under the influence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In 1621 Riga and the outlying fortress of Daugavgriva came under the rule of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, who intervened in the Thirty Years' War not only for political and economic gain but also in favour of German Lutheran Protestantism. During the Russo-Swedish War, 1656-1658, Riga withstood a siege by Russians. Riga remained the largest city in Sweden until 1710 during a period in which the city retained a great deal of self-government autonomy. In that year, in the course of Great Northern War, Russia under Tsar Peter the Great invaded Riga. Sweden's northern dominance ended, and Russia's emergence as the strongest Northern power was formalized through the Treaty of Nystad in 1721. Riga was annexed by Russia and became an industrialized port city of the Russian empire, where it remained until World War I. By 1900, Riga was the third largest city in Russia after Moscow and Saint Petersburg in terms of numbers of industrial workers.[citation needed] During these many centuries of war and changes of power in the Baltic, the Baltic Germans in Riga remained in their dominant position despite demographic changes. By 1867 Riga's population was 42.9% German.[7] Riga employed German as its official language of administration until the imposition of Russian language in 1891 as the official language in the Baltic provinces. Latvians began to supplant Germans as the largest ethnic group in the city in the mid-19th century. The rise of a Latvian bourgeoisie made Riga a center of the Latvian National Awakening with the founding of the Riga Latvian Association in 1868 and the organization of the first national song festival in 1873. The nationalist movement of the Young Latvians was followed by the socialist New Current during the city's rapid industrialization, culminating in the 1905 Revolution led by the Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party. The 20th century brought World War I and the impact of the Russian Revolution of 1917 to Riga. The German army marched into Riga in 1917. In 1918 the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was signed giving the Baltic countries to Germany. Because of the Armistice with Germany of November 11, 1918, Germany had to renounce that treaty, as did Russia, leaving Latvia and the other Baltic States in a position to claim independence. Latvia, with Riga as its capital city, thus declared its independence on November 18, 1918. Between World War I and World War II (1918–1940), Riga and Latvia shifted their focus from Russia to the countries of Western Europe. The United Kingdom and Germany replaced Russia as Latvia's major trade partners. During the World War II, Latvia was occupied first by the Soviet Union in June 1940 and then by Nazi Germany in 1941-1944. The Baltic Germans were forcibly repatriated to Germany. The city's Jewish community was forced into Riga ghetto and concentration camps were constructed in Kaiserwald and the city of Salaspils. In 1945 Latvia was once again occupied by the Red Army. As a result of the war Latvia lost approximately one-third of its population.[citation needed] Forced industrialization and planned[citation needed] large-scale immigration of large numbers of non-Latvians from other Soviet republics into Riga, particularly Russians, changed the demographic composition of Riga. The policy of economic reform, introduced in 1986 as Perestroika, led to dissolution of the Soviet Union and restoration of independent Latvia in 1991. Latvia formally joined the United Nations as an independent country on September 17, 1991. In 2004 Latvia joined both NATO and the European Union. In 2004, the arrival of low-cost airlines resulted in cheaper flights from other European cities such as London and Berlin and consequently a substantial increase in numbers of tourists.[8]

Infrastructure

Riga has one airport, Riga International Airport, that serves commercial airlines. Air traffic at the airport doubled between 1993 and 2004. Baltic sea ferries connect Riga to Stockholm, Kiel and Lübeck. Riga was also home to two air bases during the Cold War: Rumbula and Spilve. Riga as a city-port is a major transportation hub and is the center of the local road and railway system. In 2008, the first stage of the new Southern Bridge route across the Daugava was completed, and opened to traffic on November 17.[15] The Southern Bridge is currently the biggest construction project in Baltic States in 20 years, and will help to reduce traffic jams and the amount of traffic in the city centre.[16] Another big construction project is the planned Riga Northern Transport Corridor,[17] which is scheduled to start in 2010. Public transportation in the city is provided by Rīgas Satiksme which operates a large fleet of trams, buses and trolleybuses on an extensive network of routes across the city. In addition, many private owners operate minibus services. Riga is connected to the rest of Latvia by trains operated by the national railway company Pasažieru Vilciens, whose headquarters are in Riga. There are also international rail links to Russia and Estonia (Valga). Current plans envisage a trans-European rail link from Tallinn to Warsaw via Riga.[18] financed by the European Union, with the first phase to be completed by 2013.[19]

Neighbourhoods

The city of Riga consists of six administrative regions, four of which are named after regions of Latvia - Kurzeme district, Latgale suburb, Vidzeme suburb, Zemgale suburb. There is also a Central District and a Northern district. Residents, however, divide Riga into residential neighbourhoods called micro regions. Unlike the city centre, they are mostly residential although they are equipped with commercial sectors. These neighbourhoods include: * Ä€genskalns - Left bank, old neighbourhood, mainly built in late 19th â€” early 20th century. * Andrejsala - An emerging art, culture and entertainment district, located within former territory of the industrial port. * BeberbeÄ·i - A neighbourhood consisting mainly of private houses, it lies on the western edge of the city. The swampy forest Mukupurvs and Riga Airport noise area separate it from the rest of the city. * Bolderāja - Left bank, northernmost neighbourhood. The 18th-century fort built by Peter the Great is one of the oldest buildings in this part of the city. * ÄŒiekurkalns - Right bank, old neighbourhood. * Dārzciems - Right bank, mainly consists of one or two-storey private houses. * Dreiliņi - A newly built neighbourhood in the eastern part of the city. * Dzirciems - Left bank, south of Iļģuciems. * Iļģuciems - Left bank, north of Ä€genskalns. * Imanta - Left bank, newly built neighbourhood. * Jugla - Right bank, large neighbourhood, lies just west of lake Juglas. * Ķengarags - Right bank, south-east of city center. One of the most populous neighbourhoods in town. * Ķīpsala - island located just west of the Old Town. Home to the Press Office and Exhibition Hall. * Maskavas ForÅ¡tate - located south of the city centre. * Mežaparks - Right bank, consists largely of private houses. Notable for its large forest-like park including the Esplanade where the Folk Song Festival is held and also the city zoo. * Mežciems - Right bank, just east of the large BiÄ·ernieku forest. * Pārdaugava - Left bank, meaning "across the Daugava", particularly the neighborhoods along the water, Ä€genskalns and Torņakalns. * Pleskodāle - A neighbourhood consisting mostly of private houses on the west side of the city. It borders ZolitÅ«de and Å ampÄ“teris neighbourhoods. * Pļavnieki - Right bank, one of the town's most populous neighbourhoods. * Purvciems - Right bank. * Sarkandaugava - Right bank, east of the small river with the same name. * Å ampÄ“teris - An old neighbourhood on the best bank of the Daugava, with many houses built in the first part of 20th century still surviving. * Å merlis - Right bank, more of a forest than a neighbourhood, it is home to Riga's Cinema Studio. * Torņakalns - Left bank, old neighbourhood known for the Māras pond. * VecmÄ«lgrāvis - Right bank, cut off from the mainland by a small river, MÄ«lgrāvis. * VecrÄ«ga - Old Town. * Ziepniekkalns - Left bank, consists both of old and new buildings. * ZolitÅ«de - Left bank, another newly-built neighbourhood, just south of Imanta. Some common factors in these place names are "vec-" meaning old [vecs], "-kalns" meaning hill, "-ciems" meaning hamlet, "-sala" meaning island and "mež-" meaning forest [mežs].

See also

* Archbishops of Riga * Riga City Council * Riga International Airport * Riga Marathon * Riga Zoo * RÄ«gas Satiksme

Sister cities

Riga maintains sister city relationships with the following cities:[25]

Theatres

* The Latvian National Opera was founded in 1918. The repertoire of the theatre embraces all the opera masterpieces. The Latvian National Opera is famous not only for its operas, but for its ballet troupe as well.[24] * The Latvian National Theatre was founded in 1919. This theatre is situated in one of the most beautiful buildings in Riga. The Latvian National Theatre preserves the traditions of Latvian drama school. It is one of the biggest theatres in Latvia.[1] * Riga Russian Theatre is the oldest professional drama theatre in Latvia. The first season was in 1883. The repertoire of the theatre includes classical plays and experimental performances of Russian and foreign playwrights. Dialogue, music, dance, pantomime are an inseparable part of its spectaculars. [2] * The Daile Theatre was opened for the first time in 1920. It is one of the most successful theatres in Latvia. This theatre is distinguished by the fact that it regularly presents productions of modern foreign plays.[3] * Latvian State Puppet Theatre was founded in 1944. This theatre presents shows for children and adults.[4] * The New Riga Theatre was opened in 1992. It has an intelligent and attractive repertoire of high quality that focused on a modern, educated and socially active audience. [5]

Universities

* University of Latvia (LU) * Riga Technical University (RTU) * Riga Graduate School of Law (RGSL) * Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) * Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital * BA School of Business and Finance (BA)