Saturday, July 21, 2007

Riga - A Bustling Port City







Riga, on the Daugava River, was part of the Hanseatic League in the 13th - 15th centuries. The Haseatic League was a German trading network of ports on the Baltic Sea. As a result, Latvia's nobility and commercial classes were made up of ethnic Germans until World War I. Riga is still a major port city on the Baltic Sea and has that bustling, commerical, big city feel to it. But there is also an old town full of great architecture and a lovely city park along a small river in the center of town.

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