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Latvia sits between Estonia and Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. Riga has a medieval old town and one of the finest collections of Art Nouveau buildings in Europe, Jūrmala has long sandy beaches, and Gauja National Park offers castles, caves and forest trails around Sigulda and Cēsis. Below is everything we have written about Latvia.
Eight Latvian towns worth a day or a night beyond Riga, from the castle towns of the Gauja valley and Bauska to the wooden villas of Jūrmala and the windy ports of the Kurzeme coast, with transport from the capital for each.
Eight genuinely little-known European towns, each with one strong reason to go, from a mosque that became a church in Portugal to a Byzantine lake town in northern Greece.
Nine handsome old towns that sit just off the main tourist trail, from Poznań’s goats to Cuenca’s hanging houses, with the exact spot to stand for each one’s postcard view.
Italy, France, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Romania and Latvia: why each deserves a trip, one experience that defines it, a region most visitors miss and when to go.