An experimental art zone that dabbles with contemporary media.
糖心传媒's must-see attractions
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Like a huge painting that you can spend hours staring at, as your eye detects more and more intriguing details, this must-see 搁墨驳补 sight is in fact a鈥
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Forming the centrepiece of 搁墨驳补鈥檚 skyline, this Gothic church is thought to be around 800 years old, making it one of the oldest medieval buildings in the鈥
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A real-life house of horrors, this imposing fin de si猫cle building is remembered by generations of Latvians as the local headquarters of the notorious鈥
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There is hardly a place in Latvia that can tell such a poignant and optimistic story as this quietly stunning memorial. 沤anis Lipke saved over 50 Jews鈥
搁墨驳补 Ghetto & Latvian Holocaust Museum
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The centrepiece of this arresting and challenging museum is a wooden house with a reconstructed flat, like those that Jews had to move into when the Nazis鈥
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Between 1941 and 1944, the Nazis 鈥 aided by Latvians 鈥 shot more than 35,000 Jews at 55 different sites in this forest. It is one of several killing sites鈥
Museum of the Barricades of 1991
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Latvia's independence came after enormous struggles. One of the most remarkable stories involves the barricades built by thousands of citizens around鈥
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These striking pine-covered cliffs loom above a pristine white-sand beach dissected by a glistening stream. This is one of the most enchanting places鈥
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The shipping yard behind the Central Market is the latest district to benefit from a generous dose of gentrification. These crumbling brick warehouses鈥
2. 搁墨驳补 Ghetto & Latvian Holocaust Museum
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The centrepiece of this arresting and challenging museum is a wooden house with a reconstructed flat, like those that Jews had to move into when the Nazis鈥
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Haggle for your huckleberries at this vast market, housed in a series of WWI Zeppelin hangars and spilling outdoors as well. It's an essential 搁墨驳补鈥
4. Latvian Academy of Science Observation Deck
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This Stalinesque tower is a not-so-welcome Soviet-era present from Moscow, which has seven towers just like it, only bigger. Construction of what is often鈥
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It would be a classical-style Lutheran church like many others if it wasn't made entirely of wood, which makes it a unique architectural gem that鈥
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This moving Holocaust Memorial is on the site of a large 1871 synagogue that was burned to the ground on 4 July, 1941 during WWII, with the entire鈥
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A branch of the National History Museum, this exhibition involving interactive multimedia technology covers the period of the third Atmoda (national鈥
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Built in 1905, this art nouveau鈥搒tyle synagogue was the only one to survive the Nazi occupation 鈥 to torch it in the tightly packed Old Town would have鈥