Riga City Excursion & Cesis Town Excursion duration: approx. 8 hours (1,5hrs Riga to Cesis – 2,5hrs Cesis visit - 1hr lunch – 1,5hrs Cesis to Riga – 1,5 h driving Riga City Tour)
Meeting point: Our guide will pick you up at Riga port
Drop off point: Riga Old Town or Riga port
Included in price: Transfers, experienced guide service, lunch and entrance tickets for Bauska castle

This is a great full day shore excursion for cruise passengers in Riga, Latvia. This tour is a wonderful opportunity to get acquainted with the hanseatic Latvia, because this tour combines excursions to two most important medieval cities (Cesis and Riga) when Latvia was one of the most important intersection point in Hanseatic League. These two cities have very well preserved architectural and cultural heritage examples from those times. In the first part of the tour you will be taken to Vidzeme, one of the most interesting regions of Latvia, being able to enjoy typical landscapes and landmarks outside of the capital. After Cesis City tour you will have a lunch in typical Latvian restaurant. When you will have get acquainted with amazing Cesis city you will be taken back to Riga in order to have short Riga City driving tour. Cruise passengers will be picked up at harbor and can be dropped off either at harbor or old town.

Cesis is a beautiful Latvian Hanseatic town located about 90 km away from Riga. This green and picturesque town which history goes back to 800 years used to be recognized in Europe as the capital of the Livonian Order. The tour to Cesis includes the stop at the site of the Castle Araisi Lake, dating back to the 9th century. Cesis town is famous with its knights' tournaments, Cesis beer festival and the open-air theatre performances. You will have a chance to enjoy a quiet and relaxing small town atmosphere. You will see the 13th century Order of Knight's Castle and the soaring Gothic tower of the 13th century Church of St.John. The castle was built in a variety of architectural styles: romanticism, Gothicism, baroque and classicism. Now only ruins are left from the medieval castle what gives an inspiring impression of the Dark Ages.

The last part of this tour is a driving excursion around Riga and its surroundings: 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 tour you can be dropped off either at harbor or in Old Town so that you can walk through its cobble-stoned streets and get more profound insight into this medieval hanseatic city.

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