Tag: Latvia
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7-senses hotel review of Hilton Riga in Riga, Latvia. Scoring sound, touch, taste, aroma, sight, sanctuary, and wander instinct.
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Riga Central Market’s zeppelin-hangar produce halls, a pipe organ concert that shook 800-year-old stone, roast chicken in a candlelit medieval dungeon, and the opulent House of the Black Heads — Day 3 in Riga was a full-spectrum sensory assault.
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First full day in Riga: the National Museum of Art’s fourteen masters, Museum LV’s contemporary competition, Esplanade Park’s fountains, a Viator taste tour through Central Market’s Zeppelin hangars, a perfect Cobb salad at Abbey, the Black Heads House, and Nepalese dinner at Himalaya.
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Four hours south from Tallinn on a Lux Express bus delivered us to Riga: lunch at Province, the quiet sincerity of St John’s Cathedral, Riga Dome Cathedral with its legendary Walcker organ (6,718 pipes), a hidden courtyard garden of lavender and carnations, and wood-fired pizza at Frego.
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Riga is the flamboyant middle child of the Baltic capitals — Art Nouveau facades, zeppelin-hangar markets, and eight centuries of occupation and resilience. Our sensory map before the journey begins.