Liepājas tirgus through time

Liepāja 1900–2012 6 photos of this spot

6 photographs taken at the same spot in Liepāja, spanning 1900–2012 — 5 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Kūrmāja, a resort area of the Baltic port city of Liepāja, Latvia, is pictured in this 1900 photograph, from a period when the town drew visitors for sea bathing along its shore and had developed into one of the Baltic coast's popular seaside destinations.

EU: Liepāja. Kūrmāja (1900) 1900 Kūrmāja, a resort area of the Baltic port city of Liepāja, Latvia, is pictured in this 1900 photograph, from a period when the town drew visitors for sea bathing along its shore and had developed into one of the Baltic coast's popular seaside destinations.

EU: Liepāja. Vakzāles iela (1900) 1900 Vakzāles iela, the street leading to the railway station in Liepāja, Latvia, is shown in this 1900 photograph of the Baltic port city, which by then had grown into a major harbor and rail terminus on the western edge of the Russian Empire.

EU: Liepāja (1935) 1935 Liepāja, a Baltic Sea port on Latvia's western coast known for its ice-free harbor, appears here in a 1935 image from the interwar period of Latvian independence between the two World Wars.

EU: Liepāja (1939) 1939 Liepāja, a port city on Latvia's Baltic coast known for its ice-free harbor, photographed in 1939 shortly before the region was drawn into the Second World War.

EU: Liepāja (1942) 1942 Liepāja in 1942, its Baltic harbor and naval facilities under German occupation following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet-controlled Baltic states the previous year.

Liepājas tirgus 2012 Liepāja's central market, or Liepājas tirgus, in the Latvian port city of Liepāja, photographed in 2012. Liepāja sits on the Baltic Sea coast and has long been an important fishing and trading port for the region.