Editing Riga (section)

== Architecture ==
[[File:Riga Castle seen across the river Daugava .jpg|thumb|right|[[Riga Castle]]]]

The [[Riga Radio and TV Tower|radio and TV tower]] of Riga is the tallest structure in Latvia and the Baltic States, and one of the tallest in the European Union, reaching {{cvt|368.5|m|0}}. Riga centre also has many great examples of Gothic revival architecture, such as the [[Kalpaka Boulevard Library]], and a bevy of [[Art Nouveau]] architecture, as well as a medieval old town.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=@NatGeoUK|date=2020-02-17|title=A city guide to Riga, Latvia's thriving capital|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2020/02/city-guide-riga-latvias-thriving-capital|access-date=2021-01-05|website=National Geographic|language=en-gb|archive-date=19 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119030854/https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2020/02/city-guide-riga-latvias-thriving-capital|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Art Nouveau ===
{{Main|Art Nouveau architecture in Riga}}
Riga has one of the largest collections of [[Art Nouveau]] buildings in the world, with at least 800 buildings.<ref name=":0"/> This is due to the fact that at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, when Art Nouveau was at the height of its popularity, Riga experienced an unprecedented financial and demographic boom.<ref name=grosa>{{cite book |last= Grosa|first= Silvija|date= 2003|title= Art Nouveau in Riga|publisher= Jumava|page= 3|isbn=9984-05-601-5}}</ref> In the period from 1857 its population grew from 282,000 (256,200 in Riga itself and another 26,200 inhabitants beyond the city limits in the [[Pierīga|patrimonial district]] and [[military townlet]] of [[Ust-Dvinsk]]) to 472,100 in 1913.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.russkije.lv/files/images/text/RL_0004X.jpg| title = НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ СОСТАВ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ ЛАТВИИ ЗА 110 ЛЕТ В ЗЕРКАЛЕ СТАТИСТИКИ, Федотов А.Н| access-date = 18 July 2021| archive-date = 18 July 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210718181515/https://www.russkije.lv/files/images/text/RL_0004X.jpg| url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://en.calameo.com/read/0020559683290f86e374f| title = Перепись населения в городе Риге и Рижском патримониальном округе от 5 декабря 1913 г.| access-date = 18 July 2021| archive-date = 18 July 2021| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210718190550/https://en.calameo.com/read/0020559683290f86e374f| url-status = live}}</ref> The middle class of Riga used their acquired wealth to build imposing apartment blocks outside the former [[city walls]]. Local architects, mostly graduates of [[Riga Technical University]], adopted current European movements and in particular Art Nouveau.<ref name=krastinsjournal>{{cite journal |last= Krastins|first= Janis|date= 2006|title= Architecture and Urban Development of Art Nouveau – Metropolis Riga|journal= International Review of Sociology|publisher= [[Routledge]]|volume=16 |issue= 2|pages= 395–425|doi=10.1080/03906700600709327|s2cid= 146754212}}</ref> Between 1910 and 1913, between 300 and 500 new buildings were built each year in Riga, many of them in Art Nouveau style and most of them outside the old town.<ref name=krastinsjournal/>
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File:Edificio modernista en Alberta iela 13, Riga, Letonia, 2012-08-07, DD 01.jpg|[[Albert Street, Riga|Alberta iela]] 13
File:Edificio modernista en Alberta iela 2a, Riga, Letonia, 2012-08-07, DD 02.JPG|Alberta iela 2a
File:Alberta ielā 12 20120728-05.JPG|Staircase of Alberta ielā 12 
File:A. Čaka iela 26 Rīga 03.jpg|Aleksandra Čaka iela 26
File:La salle à manger (musée dart nouveau, Riga) (7562659988).jpg|Riga Art Nouveau Museum
File:Edificio modernista en Strelnieku Iela 4a, Riga, Letonia, 2012-08-07, DD 01.JPG|Strēlnieku iela 4a
FILE:0871 LVA Riga art noveau relief meistaru iela 10.jpg|Meistaru iela 10 relief
FILE:0872 LVA Riga art noveau relief.jpg|Strelnieku iela relief
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