Latvia Travel Guide
Between wide beaches on the Baltic Sea and dense, sprawling forests the capital city Riga has one of the finest collections of Art Nouveau buildings.
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Interesting Things to Know About Latvia
Latvia has two UNESCO World Heritage sites, as of 2023. These are the historic centre of Riga, a prominent Hanseatic city, and the Struve Geodetic Arc. The Arc is a series of triangulation points set up by the astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve between 1816 and 1855 to calculate the size and shape of the Earth. Originally, 265 station points were set up. Of these 34 now make up the World Heritage Site, spread through ten countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine), two of which are in Latvia.