Travel tips and advice for Riga, Latvia: Nine must-do highlights

Riga has embraced its Soviet-era past while enjoying something of a renaissance.

• by David Whitley

Tips and things to do in Riga, Latvia: The three-minute guide

Feel the former Eastern Bloc shrug off its dour image in the Latvian capital city, where a demure facade gives way to a place of surprising life and energy.

• by Andrew Bain

Hot spots: the top six cities to visit in 2014

Rio is ramping up for the World Cup, Tokyo has returned to form and Riga is culture capital.

The other Europe

There's more to Europe than Paris and Prague as Ute Junker discovers with these oft-forgotten treasures.

• by Ute Junker

New beat in the Baltic

With a song in his heart, Adrian Bridge revisits Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia 20 years after independence.

Tracks winding back

A dreadnought fan from childhood, Steven Herrick takes to the city trams to explore Tallinn and Riga.

A taste for the real Riga

Cathrin Schaer dodges the tourist traps and ends upon the wrong side of the tracks.