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Baltic attractions
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Riga St Jacob`s CathedralRiga St Jacob`s Cathedral is the smallest one among the four Old Town churches; however, its belfry has best maintained the features characteristic to Medieval Riga churches. From the very beginning up to the Reformation period, the building belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and was the centre of Latvian spiritual life. Later (1523–1582), it became the first church in Riga to house...
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Riga Cathedral Cross GalleryOn display at the Cross Gallery are several collections of the Museum of the History of Riga and Navigation: cannons and firing equipment, grave slabs, fragments of stone and metal decorations from lost buildings, a plaster cast of the monument to Peter I, archaeological finds, particularly the finds of the year 2000 in the Cathedral garden – the so-called Salaspils stone head, a hypothetical...
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