You can get closer to Latvian culture and traditions in the Central Market. Merchants will offer typical and unique products here – you will met food used here for a long time as well as new flavors of Latvia.

VALUES

• Honey in the honeycombs and flower dust
• Hemp butter
• Sandthorn syrup and marmalade
• Cranberries, red bilberries, mountain ash (at fall)
• Fried lampreys
• Rye bread
• Salted and dried mushrooms
• Sauerkraut (autumn, winter)
• Kvass (summer)
• Pig snouts (in winter)
• Crafters’ Wickerworks and Knitwear
• Homemade ornaments
• Amber jewelry

The best in the “Riga Central Market”

• Fresh and natural products from Latvian farms
• The widest assortment of Latvian food
• Competitive prices
• The possibility of bargain
• A wide range of souvenirs

Exciting things

• Market pavilion architecture
• The market atmosphere
• Bargaining

USEFUL INFORMATION

Interesting places nearby

Warehouses – Spikeri

Take a look at the red brick warehouse buildings (Spikeri), almost 150 years old. Each of them is built on individual designs made by known and respected architects in Europe and Russia – Karlis Felsko, Fridrich Hess, Robert Pfug, Reinhold Shmiling, Janis Baumann. 58 warehouses were built from 1864 to 1886, but only 13 are survived to the present days.

Remember

There are a lot of people so beware of cutpurses!

Call in aid

• Tourism police: 112
• Reference and information service: (+371) 1188
• Ambulance: 112
• Department of municipal police in Riga Central Market

Riga Tourist information center

Working hours:

Mon: 09:00 – 19:00
Tue: 09:00 – 19:00
Wed: 09:00 – 19:00
Thu: 09:00 – 19:00
Fri: 09:00 – 19:00
Sat: 09:00 – 19:00
Sun: 09:00 – 19:00

October – April: 10:00 – 18:00

Address: Pragas str. 1, Riga
Phone: +371 67220555
E-mail: info@rigatic.lv
Website: https://www.LiveRiga.com