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Bike Route : Centre – Open Air Museum – Centre NB Hotel, Riga, 49 Slokas street, Ph. +371 67815333, Email : [email protected]; www.nb.lv, Facebook : hotelnb;Foursquare : hotel_nb Bike Route : Centre – Open Air Museum – Centre • Start/Finish: NB Hotel • Duration: 4 hours • Length: 30 kilometres • Additional information: Emergency (medical, fire or police service) phone number - 112 On the route, you'll have an opportunity to see various cultural and industrial objects and monuments, each featuring a long history and several stages - idea, implementation and decline. The route follows Brīvības Street (for the most part - the cycling path Centre - Berģi) which is Riga's longest, most vivid and time-tested street. An interesting object - the Great Cemetery, an ensemble of gardens and parks. Have a look at brilliant sculptural art, feel eternity and then keep following the city's main street. The final stop - the Open-Air Museum. Lock your bicycle at the stand and go for a walk, where you will find many old structures (the end of 17th century to the 1930s) from all Latvian historical regions. NB Hotel, Riga, 49 Slokas street, Ph. +371 67815333, Email : [email protected]; www.nb.lv, Facebook : hotelnb;Foursquare : hotel_nb 1. NB Hotel, Rīga, Slokas iela 49 GPS Details : DD 56.9531492 24.062489200000073 DMS N 56° 57' 11.337'' E 24° 3' 44.961'' NB Hotel is a three star hotel, located in Riga. It has 72 comfortable rooms and it is known by hospitable personnel and exquisite service. NB Hotel has Billiards club with Snooker, Pool and Russian billiards tables, Restaurant, Bar, which works 24 hours a day, summer terrace and Banquet halls with capacity up to 150 persons. Tip! - Planning your trip through Riga make Your stop in NB Hotel to have tasty lunch or dinner, and play billiards. 2. Freedom Monument GPS Details : DD 56.95149 24.11330399999997 DMS N 56° 57' 5.364'' E 24° 6' 47.894'' Dedicated to victims of the War of Independence; today it is deemed a symbol of the Latvian state, the nation's unity, independence and freedom. The 42.7 metre-high granite, ferroconcrete and copper monument was unveiled on 18 November 1935 and financed entirely from public donations. Fifty six sculptures are arranged in thirteen groups on four levels, depicting significant events and personalities in Latvian history. NB Hotel, Riga, 49 Slokas street, Ph. +371 67815333, Email : [email protected]; www.nb.lv, Facebook : hotelnb;Foursquare : hotel_nb 3. Latvian Academy of Art GPS Details : DD 56.95485369999999 24.111408100000062 DMSN 56°57’17.473’’ E 24°6’41.069’’ Located in one of Riga's most notable architectural monuments of the early 20th century - Neo-gothic-style building of the Commerce School of the Riga Stock Exchange (arch. W.L.Bockslaff). According to requirements of the Riga Stock Exchange Committee, the building was constructed in "Gothic brick" forms reflecting the Hanseatic city traditions. The indoor structure can be well seen from outside: the classes are on the side of Kr. Valdemāra Street, the Grand Hall, stairs and teachers' apartments - on Kalpaka Boulevard. The building is decorated with local and imported materials - red brick, ceramic tiles, various stones. The columns at the entrance are made of Rembate dolomite sandstone. In a number of indoor ornamental paintings, the motifs of Art Nouveau were used. The ceiling is striking, decorated by one of the largest paintings in the Baltics. The Art Nouveau stained glass made in E. Tode’s workshop, decorates the huge windows. 4. Main Building of the Latvian National Museum of Arts GPS Details : DD 56.9557867 24.11294769999995 DMSN N 56° 57' 20.832'' E 24° 6' 46.611'' The building at 10a Kr. Valdemāra Street was constructed between 1903 and 1905 for the needs of the Riga City Museum of Art and the Riga Society for Art Promotion (Kunstverein). Designed by the museum’s first director, the Baltic German architect and art historian, Wilhelm Neuman, (1849–1919). This building is one of the most impressive in the Park and Boulevard Circle area of Riga. The structure, as well as the parameters of the exhibition rooms, corresponded to the required standard for an art museum in Europe at the previous turn of the century. The majestic facade is designed in the Baroque and Classicist styles; the sculptural group of the central fronton was created by the sculptor August Volz (1851–1926). The interior of the building – the lobby and the ornaments on the staircase banister – feature elements of Art Nouveau. The top-floor lobby is adorned with six decorative semi-circular paintings by the great Latvian painter Vilhelms Purvītis (1872–1945) and a master of Estonian classical art Gerhard von Rosen (1856–1927). On 12 February 2013, the public operation of the Latvian National Museum of Art was suspended due to the launch of its reconstruction. NB Hotel, Riga, 49 Slokas street, Ph. +371 67815333, Email : [email protected]; www.nb.lv, Facebook : hotelnb;Foursquare : hotel_nb 5. Riga First City Hospital GPS Details : DD 56.961655 24.125984000000017 DMS N 56° 57' 41.958'' E 24° 7' 33.542'' The oldest civilian hospital in Latvia, set up on 3 (15) May 1803 especially for poor people on the grounds of the former Crown Pharmacy. The hospital is notable as a monument to Latvia's medical, cultural and architectural history since the structure featured the most progressive ideas of the time, and was constructed by the best Latvian architects. In 1873, the building was reconstructed as Latvia's first pavilion-type hospital (arch. Johan Daniel Felsko). In 1907, a wing for administration of the hospital and an outpatient hospital were added according to the project by Reinhold Schmaeling; now the outpatient hospital is completely reconstructed under arch. V.Rauhvargere. A wing for patients with diseases of the central nervous system was built in 1937 (arch. Eizens Laube). In 2006, the renovation of a reception hall was completed according to the project by Olita Upaciere and funded by ERAF. 6. Daile Theater GPS Details : DD 56.95978969999999 24.12617279999995 DMS N 56° 57' 35.243'' E 24° 7' 34.222'' The biggest theater in Latvia that is an excellent example of the architecture of international functionalism of 1960s in Latvia. Author of the project is architect Marta Staņa – the Daile Theater was the most significant building in the entire life of the architect, though she never experienced the finish of its construction in 1976; after her death architect Imants Jākobsons helped to complete it. Consistent arrangement of amounts differentiated by functions and spacious, mutually merged rooms are characteristic to the building. Glazed viewers’ lobby stretched along the Brīvības Street creates the main façade. Above it – highlight of the end wall of viewers’ hall – logo of the theater plastically interpreted by sculptor Ojārs Feldbergs. In the large frontal square, dark brick box- office hall contrasts with bright concrete and glass surfaces. In general, the building is characterized by brutalist aesthetics. NB Hotel, Riga, 49 Slokas street, Ph. +371 67815333, Email : [email protected]; www.nb.lv, Facebook : hotelnb;Foursquare : hotel_nb 7. Great Cemetery - Ensemble of Gardens and Parks GPS Details : DD 56.9691799 24.135970000000043 DMS N 56° 58' 9.048'' E 24° 8' 9.492' Tens of thousands Rigans are buried in the area (although no one can say the exact number as a part of the cemetery is destroyed); you will also find high-quality monuments representing the most typical artistic styles from the second half of the 18th century. Today the cemetery features about 60 species of trees and shrubs, among them 39 introduced species: Japanese larch, common maple, dwarf Russian almond, yellow twig dogwood, black poplar, white rose, meadowsweet, Crimean linden, Siberian elm, common lime, Northern white-cedar, and others. Between 1770 and 1772, the Baltic District of the Russian Empire suffered from the Black Plague; in order to cope with it, a ruling was issued stipulating that the dead must be buried outside the town (the order reached Riga on 23 February 1773) - a burial ground must be set up in at least 2 kilometre-distance. Thus, the area of the present Great Cemetery was chosen in 1773. The "Great Cemetery" Ensemble of Gardens and Parks is a 22-hectare property (12 hectares - 1st category; 10 hectares - 2nd category) currently owned by the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church. The area is located between Brīvības, Mēness, Miera and Klijānu Streets in Riga Vidzeme District. The complex encompasses St.Jacob's Catholic Cemetery and Cemetery of Wehrmacht Soldiers (Soviet prisoners were buried here). 8. Pokrov Cemetery GPS Details : DD 56.9686433 24.138653699999963 DMS N 56° 58' 7.116'' E 24° 8' 19.153'' A cemetery in Riga; area of 70,669 square meters located at 3 Mēness. Currently the area belongs to Riga Holy Virgin Shelter Church, which rents the land from Atols HK Ltd. The cemetery also houses the Ascension of Christ Church; the only Latvian Orthodox church in Riga where sermons are held in Latvian. A number of notable citizens of Riga are buried here, such as, Archbishop of Riga Jānis Pommers, Metropolitan of Vilnius and Lithuania Sergey (Voskresensky), poet O. Šmidta, teacher F. Erns, magistrate N. Eše, literature critic P. Pilsky, state councillor V. Juzepchuk, Governor of Riga A. Bekleshov, Professor V.Chernobayev, primadonna of Mariinsky Theatre M. Cherkaska, augur Eižens Finks, infantry general A. Simonov, actor V. Svobodin, Saint Petersburg opera soloist D. Smirnov, writer Aleksey Tolstoy's wife J. Rozhanska, Russian First Journalism School Principal P. Pilsky, bibliographer S. Minclov, Chekha- assassinated newspaper NB Hotel, Riga, 49 Slokas street, Ph. +371 67815333, Email : [email protected]; www.nb.lv, Facebook : hotelnb;Foursquare : hotel_nb Segodnya ("Сегодня" from Russian: "Today") editor M.
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