{"id":167320,"date":"2010-01-11T18:56:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1043479"},"modified":"2010-01-11T18:56:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:56:04","slug":"lights-and-colours-in-winter-darkness-riga-in-christmasnew-year-20092010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/167320","title":{"rendered":"Lights and colours in winter darkness: Riga in Christmas\/New Year 2009\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
Several things made these Christmas and New year celebrations in Riga better than in previous years. Firstly, it’s the best (or – the first) winter in the last 10 or so years. Secondly, Christmas decorations in the city this year were significantly more & better than in previous years. Because of Orthodox Christmas, the city was still decorated all the last week and I used this chance to take some photos of Christmas\/New Year Riga. I will add a few daylight winter photos too. <\/p>\n

Despite of quite frequent snowfalls and temperature well below zero, the snow cover in Riga doesn’t remain thick for too long. <\/p>\n

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Riga canal is frozen and ducks are forced to reside on snow. And that is like a magnet to people of all ages…<\/p>\n

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Valdemara street <\/p>\n

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OK, let’s switch to night shots.<\/p>\n

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Evening snowfall… <\/p>\n

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Riga Canal. Where are those light beams coming from? We will find out soon…<\/p>\n

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Raina boulevard. <\/p>\n

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Kalpaka boulevard <\/p>\n

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Vermanes park has became a "battlefield" of 2 leading mobile operators in Latvia. While in light festival "Staro Riga" time Tele2 decorated this park, now LMT has made their "Winter Garden" here – with great decorations and music in non-stop 24 hours a day. It looks and feels amazing.<\/p>\n

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Christmas tree at Riga castle<\/p>\n

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Jekaba square got very interesting installation – a light "ball" which changes colours.<\/p>\n

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Livu square right after snowfall. Looks like winter wonderland. <\/p>\n

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Doma square – it’s Christmas marketplace in Riga.<\/p>\n

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Valnu street with it’s "green carpet". <\/p>\n

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University of Latvia<\/p>\n

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National Opera<\/p>\n

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"Duckburg"<\/p>\n

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Several things made these Christmas and New year celebrations in Riga better than in previous years. Firstly, it’s the best (or – the first) winter in the last 10 or so years. Secondly, Christmas decorations in the city this year were significantly more & better than in previous years. Because of Orthodox Christmas, the city […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}