Riga: Neighbourhood
Places and attractions in the Neighbourhood category
Categories
- Church
- Museum
- Neighbourhood
- History museum
- Historical place
- Sacred and religious sites
- Specialty museum
- Park
- Theater
- Architecture
- Gothic architecture
- Art museum
- Concerts and shows
- Bridge
- Shopping
- Forts and castles
- Memorial
- Universities and schools
- Monuments and statues
- Cemetery
- Library
- Art Nouveau architecture
- Sport
- Sport venue
- Arenas and stadiums
Salas
Salas is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia. Its landmass consists entirely of the islands Zaķusala, Lucavsala, and Kazas sēklis.
Āgenskalns
Āgenskalns is a district in Riga, located on the left bank of the Daugava, an old neighbourhood, mainly built in the late 19th to early 20th century. The total area of Āgenskalns is 4,6 km², which is a lot less than other districts of Riga.
Daugavgrīva
Daugavgrīva is a neighbourhood in North West Riga, Latvia on the left bank of the Daugava river. In this neighbourhood there is a Swedish-built fortress on the Daugava River's left bank, commanding its mouth.
Torņakalns
Torņakalns is a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia. Located on the western bank of the Daugava River. The name Torņakalns derives from a fortified tower built in the Middle Ages close to the Daugava River to alarm the city of Riga in case of emergency and unwelcomed intruders about to cross the river.
Katlakalns
Katlakalns is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is linked to Ķengarags and Maskavas forštate by the Southern Bridge erected in 2004-2008 and opened on November 17, 2008.
Vecmīlgrāvis
Vecmīlgrāvis is a neighbourhood in Riga, the capital of Latvia, located in the northern part of the city, about 12–14 km from the city centre. From 1203 until 1305 the present Vecmīlgrāvis territory belonged to the Daugavgrīva Abbey.
Berģi
Berģi is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia. The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum is located here.
Mežaparks
Mežaparks is a neighbourhood of Northern District in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It consists of a residential area to the South and a large urban park to the North of the same name – Mežaparks.
Mežciems
Mežciems is a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia. It is located in the eastern part of the city in the Vidzeme Suburb. The name is literally translated from Latvian as forest village. Mežciems is encircled by the Šmerlis and Jugla Forests. Lake Gaiļezers is located at the northern part of the neighbourhood.
Centrs
Centrs is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia, which includes the central part of the city minus Old Riga. Much of it is administered as a part of the city's Central District, while parts are included within the Northern District and the Vidzeme and Latgale suburbs.
Zaķusala
Zaķusala is one of several islands in the Daugava river in the central part of the city Riga, the capital of Latvia. Zaķusala is home to the Riga Radio and TV Tower, which was completed in 1986 and the Latvian Television building, also completed the same year.
Ķīpsala
Ķīpsala is an island on the left bank of the Daugava river, connected to Riga city center and Pārdaugava by the Shroud Bridge. Ķīpsala is divided from the rest of Riga by the Daugava in the east, Roņu dīķis in the north, Zunda in the west and Agenskalna līcis in the south.
Maskavas Forštate
Maskavas Forštate also known as Maskavas priekšpilsēta and colloquially as Maskačka, is a suburb of Riga situated on the right bank of the Daugava. The neighborhood is located to the south of Old Riga along the road historically connecting Riga to Moscow, from which its name is derived.
Jaunciems
Jaunciems is a neighbourhood of Northern District in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is located on the northeastern shore of Lake Ķīšezers.
Dzirciems
Dzirciems is a Riga neighbourhood located in the Pārdaugava side of Riga. It mainly consists of Soviet-style apartment buildings built in the 1970s. Riga Stradiņš University is located here.
Pētersala-Andrejsala
Pētersala-Andrejsala is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is located near the Freeport of Riga and consists of the areas of Pētersala and Andrejsala.
Atgāzene
Atgāzene is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is the location of Turība University.
Dārzciems
Dārzciems is a neighborhood of Riga located in the Latgale Suburb in the southeastern part of the right bank of the Daugava river.
Teika
Teika is a neighbourhood in the Vidzeme Suburb of Riga, the capital of Latvia. Teika is the only neighbourhood in Riga which was planned and partly built in 1920s and 1930s during interwar Latvia.
Skanste
Skanste is a neighbourhood located in the center of Riga, the capital of Latvia, and is currently becoming its most modern part.
Ķengarags
Ķengarags is a neighborhood in the city of Riga, Latvia. It is located in the southern part of the city. Ķengarags borders the Daugava River to the west, the Riga-Moscow railway line to the east, Rumbula to the south, and Krasta Residential Neighborhood to the north.
Imanta
Imanta is a neighbourhood on the western edge of Riga, Latvia. The neighbourhood's northern border is Kurzeme Prospekts; and in the south, Imanta is separated from the newer Zolitūde neighbourhood by the Riga railroad.
Pļavnieki
Pļavnieki is a Riga neighbourhood situated to the right of the river Daugava. Territory of the Pļavnieki for many centuries was used as agricultural land and was added to Riga only in 1974.
Vecāķi
Vecāķi is a Northern District neighbourhood in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is one of Riga's neighborhoods lying on the shores of Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea.
Iļģuciems
Iļģuciems is one of the older neighbourhoods situated in the Pārdaugava side of Riga.
Avoti
Avoti is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is named after Avotu iela which runs horizontally through the middle of the area.
Ziepniekkalns
Ziepniekkalns is a neighborhood of Riga, Latvia. It is located in the Pārdaugava section of Riga close to the city's southern border. Ziepniekkalns is the latest out of all Riga's neighborhoods. It was built in the late 1980s and early 1990s and mostly consists of Soviet-built 10 story apartment buildings.
Riga District
Riga District was an administrative division of Latvia, located in Semigallia and Vidzeme regions, in the centre of the country. The district had the two cities of Riga and Jūrmala with the Gulf of Riga to the north.
Bukulti
Bukulti is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia, located in the northeastern part of the Vidzeme Suburb.
Zolitūde
Zolitūde is mainly an apartment house neighbourhood located in the western part of Riga, the capital of Latvia. Zolitūde is a centrally planned estate, consisting mostly of prefabricated concrete block Brutalist style homes built in late Soviet times.
Lucavsala
Lucavsala is an island located on the Daugava River in Riga, Latvia. It has a population of 98.
Šampēteris
Šampēteris is an old Riga neighbourhood on the Pārdaugava side of the Daugava river, with many houses built in the first part of 20th century still surviving.
Šķirotava
Šķirotava is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is located in the Latgale Suburb of Riga close to the city's southeastern border.
Dārziņi
Dārziņi is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia, which is located in the Latgale Suburb. The neighbourhood mostly consists of summer homes and small plant gardens for personal use, and it is the southernmost neighbourhood of Riga.
Mangaļsala
Mangaļsala is a neighbourhood of Northern District in Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is located on the right bank of Daugava River, on the coast of the Gulf of Riga.
Pleskodāle
Pleskodāle is a neighbourhood of Riga consisting mostly of private houses on the western side of the city. It borders the Zolitūde and Šampēteris neighbourhoods.
Bišumuiža
Bišumuiža is a neighbourhood of Zemgale Suburb in Riga, the capital of Latvia.
Kleisti
Kleisti is a neighbourhood of Riga, the capital of Latvia. It is the largest neighbourhood of Riga by area, although sparsely populated. Most of the neighbourhood is woods and overgrown meadows. The name of the neighbourhood comes from the former Kleisti Manor.
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Region: Riga