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invite you to Old Riga. Old Riga or Old City is the former German
fortress constructed by German knights of many
centuries back. From this fortress was begun also with a
history of city of Riga. On an entrance to Old Riga, my attention is
direct at a corner of the Central Department store have involved
sounds of a saxophone. The elderly saxophonist, as well as it is
necessary - in white gloves, played magnificent jazz improvisations.
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In narrow streets of city of Riga it is possible to
meet nice girls
- the Girl, you have got in a history!
Old Riga on the present old. Sometimes it seems,
stick with a finger into a wall of such house, and the house will
fall upon you.
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Here, in Old Riga, there is a Latvian parliament, on ours - the
Diet. Near to the Diet, in garbage tanks, always many tasty scraps.
In a picture in the left top corner - a well-known stable of
Russian tsar Peter 1
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The ethnic animosity, national intolerance in Latvia is today already
a vestige of a history. Though separate relapses still meet.
In a picture: an inscription on a wall of a house
" Russian have gone! "
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dark. Leaving from Old Riga we get on quay of the river Daugava (Zapadnaya
Dvina)
"Vantovij" the bridge
constructed in 80th years at the communistic mayor of Riga Alfred
Rubics, today began one of symbols of Latvia
October 2002
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