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Latvia

3 places
The middle Baltic state is more than half forest, a land of amber, folk songs, and a capital packed with Art Nouveau, whose people sang their way out of the Soviet Union in a chain of two million joined hands across three countries.

The West (Riga & the Coast)2 places

RigaTown · ●●●●○The biggest of the Baltic capitals, pairing a Hanseatic old town with entire streets of extravagant Art Nouveau…
The Gauja Valley & SiguldaNature · ●●●○○A green river valley of sandstone bluffs, forest, and old castles that Latvians call their Switzerland, threaded with…

The East (Latgale)1 place

The Latgale LakesNature · ●●●○○The quiet, lake-strewn southeast corner of Latvia, poorer and more mixed than the rest, where blue lakes, Orthodox and…