A Private Riga Highlights Tour 3.5 hrs - Cruise Ship Shore Excursions

Riga City Tour duration: approx. 3,5 hours

Meeting point: Our guide will pick you up at Riga port
Included in price: 3,5h guided tour through Riga and its Old Town (driving and walking tour)

This Riga City Tour is a great choice for those cruise ship passengers who want to discover the most significant places of Riga and its Old Town. The Guided Riga City Tour consists of driving part (approx 1,5hrs) and walking part (approx 2 hours). You will be picked up from the harbor to start the driving part, after the walking part our guide will leave you in the Old Town so that you can spend a nice afternoon in this lively and charming old town of Riga whether enjoying its terraces, shopping places or getting more profound insight into Latvian cultures visiting some tourist attraction places and museums.

This tour unites both Old Town's beauty and more distant Riga’s districts and places of attraction. You will be invited to view the most significant sights of Riga: central streets and boulevards of Riga, the Bastion Hill, Laima clock, The University of Latvia, Latvian Opera House, Passenger Terminal and Daugava River, Brethren cemetery and Art Nouveau architecture.

After the driving the walking part through the Old City is followed. During Riga Old Town Tour our experienced guide will walk you through the labyrinth of cobble-stoned streets and tell the most amazing historical facts and legends of Riga making you feel to have made a journey back in time. Riga Old Town can be proud of very well preserved cultural heritage, you will be surprised of old town churches, romantic medieval cobble-stoned streets, hanseatic style buildings, lively squares and small parks. Our guide will take you to the most significant places and sights of Riga: Latvian National Opera, Convent Yard, St.Peter church, Dome Cathedral, Small and Great Guild, Cat House, Dominican monastery, House of Blackheads, Roland's statue, St. Jacob's Church, St. John's Church, Riga Castle, Swedish Gate, Three Brothers, the Freedom monument and others. You will have a complete outsight impression of these historical places and if you would be interested to get more profound insight into Latvian history there is a possibility to have insight visits to all these monuments when the guided tour is finished (please contact us and we will send you information about timetables and prices).