Freedom Square and Bastejkalns Park This page is about the area around Freedom Square, just North of the Old Town. Here you can find the imposing Freedom Monument, the beautiful narrow Bastejkalns Park, the National Opera, the parks Vermanes Garden and Esplanade, the beautiful Russian-Orthodox Cathedral as well as many embassies. There are more modern buildings here then in the Old Town, it is more trafficated by trams and the streets are larger. |
FREEDOM SQUARE: |
Freedom Square with the Freedom Monument (Brīvības piemineklis) and the Radisson Blu Latvjia Hotel. The Freedom Monument was built to honour the soldiers killed during the Latvian War of Independence (1918-20). It was unveiled in 1935 and is 41m tall. During the Soviet rule there were plans to demolish it, but was stopped.
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Freedom Square with the Freedom Monument |
Freedom Monument from Bastejkalns Park |
The Freedom Monument consists of a travertine column bearing the copper figure of Liberty lifting three gilded stars. |
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BASTEJKALNS PARK: |
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Bastejkalns park |
Bird monument, Bastejkalns park |
Canal boats on Riga Canal, Bastejkalns park |
THE QUARTERS AROUND THE RIGA CANAL AND BASTEJKALNS PARK: |
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Latvian Music Academy |
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Street scene |
Royal Hotel |
Kalku iela, near Freedom Square |
ESPLANADE PARK: |
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Splendid palace, cinema from 1923 |
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Radisson Elizabetes Hotel, Elizabetes iela (Elizabeth street) |
Elizabetes iela (Elizabeth street) |
Modern tram at Krisjana Barona iela |
VERMANES GARDEN: |
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