Jurmala, Baltic Riviera
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Excursion to Jurmala, Tours to Latvia
Jurmala (bus) (from 3 to 4 hours)
Jurmala (Riga seaside) is a seaside town on the shore of the Gulf of Riga, located 14 kilometers from Riga. The resort town is famous for its healing pine forest and a narrow and long sandy beach, reaching 36 km in length. We will discover the wooden dacha architecture of the XIX century, walk along the central pedestrian street of the city - Yomas Street, and finally, having visited the famous concert hall "Dzintari", we will go to the beach. Walking along the beach, we pay attention to the place where the restaurant Juras Perle was once located, about which all the decent population of the USSR heard - from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad. Unfortunately, neither the first cabaret restaurant in the history of the Union, in which the ascent of the career ladder began by Laima Vaikule and Boris Moiseev, nor even the building itself has not survived to our days. Jurmala is one of the oldest resorts of the Russian Empire, which was visited by Russian tsars and famous Russian and Soviet writers, scientists, public figures. In Soviet times, Jurmala was a favorite resort of workers and collective farmers. The guide will acquaint you with the history of the Riga seaside (during the periods of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and modern Latvia), with the mores and customs of the Jurmal resorts, will answer all your questions and recommend restaurants, cafes and nightclubs for recreation. In winter, Jurmala can also offer many opportunities for relaxation.
Jurmala beach in the December afternoon hours is romantic beauty, and a walk along the shore will not leave you indifferent in any weather. The classical architecture of Jurmala, sometimes preserved from the pre-revolutionary period, is fanned with winter charm, and the famous Jurmala monument St. George fights with a snake (witty Soviet journalists in the year of severe dry law often liked to sentence a green snake) as before meets visitors to Jurmala near the Mayori station, where the all-Union famous Yomas street (Yomenskaya) begins. There is also a cozy and elegant hotel "Majori". In its place at the beginning of the last century there was a wooden hotel, in which the notorious Sonka Golden Pen herself stayed on tour.
In general, Jurmala is a legendary place and deserves close attention. Welcome to Riga Seaside at any time of the year!