Gate (entrance) through time

Riga 1900–2025 27 photos of this spot

27 photographs taken at the same spot in Riga, spanning 1900–2025 — 9 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

The Daugava River flows past Riga, Latvia, in this 1900 photograph, taken along the waterway that has anchored the city's trade and settlement since medieval times and that continues to divide the Latvian capital into its eastern and western banks.

EU: Rīga. Daugava (1900) 1900 The Daugava River flows past Riga, Latvia, in this 1900 photograph, taken along the waterway that has anchored the city's trade and settlement since medieval times and that continues to divide the Latvian capital into its eastern and western banks.

EU: Rīga. Bastejkalns (1900) 1900 Bastejkalns, the hill and park bordering Riga's old town, is pictured here in 1900. Laid out where the city's fortifications once stood, the park with its canal and footbridges became a favored promenade for residents of the Latvian capital.

EU: Rīga. Saeimas nams (1900) 1900 The Saeima building in Riga, later home to Latvia's parliament, is shown in this 1900 photograph of the city, taken while Riga was still governed as part of the Russian Empire, decades before the structure took on its later legislative role.

EU: Rīga. Pulvertornis (1910) 1910 The Powder Tower, or Pulvertornis, is one of the few surviving fortification towers of Riga's medieval city walls, shown here in a 1910 photograph of the Latvian capital.

EU: Rīga. Pulvertornis (1914) 1914 Riga's Powder Tower, part of the city's surviving medieval fortifications, is shown again in this photograph from 1914, several years after an earlier view of the same structure.

EU: Rīga. Osta (1916) 1916 The port of Riga on the Daugava River, one of the Baltic's busiest harbors, is shown in this 1916 photograph taken during the First World War.

Gate in 1939 1939 Riga, capital of Latvia, photographed in 1939, in the final months before the outbreak of the Second World War would end the country's interwar period of independence.

EU: Rīga. Tramvajs (1939) 1939 A tram in Riga, captured in 1939. The city's tram network dated back to the start of the twentieth century and was a familiar sight on the streets of the Latvian capital.

Gate in 1942 1942 Riga in 1942, during the years when Latvia lay under German occupation following the Nazi invasion of the Soviet-controlled Baltic states in 1941.

Doma laukums (Riga) 2006 Dome Square, or Doma laukums, in Riga's Old Town, the historic heart of the Latvian capital, is dominated by Riga Cathedral and ranks among the city's best-known public squares; this photograph was taken in 2006.

Витражи домского собора 2012 Stained-glass windows inside the Dome Cathedral (Rigas Doms) in Riga, Latvia, photographed in 2012. The cathedral, one of the largest medieval churches in the Baltic region, is known for its ornate interior and historic organ.

Riga - Historical Building of Riga Stock Exchange - Vēsturiskā ēka Rīgas Fondu biržā 2012 The former Riga Stock Exchange building on Cathedral Square was built in the 1850s in a Venetian Renaissance style and today houses an art museum. This photo was taken in 2012.

Buildings around Cathedral Square 2014 Buildings around Cathedral Square, or Doma laukums, are shown in this 2014 photograph of Riga's old town. The plaza is anchored by Riga Cathedral within the Latvian capital's UNESCO-listed historic center.

Buildings around Cathedral Square 2014 Buildings surrounding Cathedral Square in Riga, Latvia, photographed in 2014. The square takes its name from Riga Cathedral, founded in 1211 and among the largest medieval churches in the Baltic region.

15 Riga - Old City 2015 Riga's old town is the setting for this 2015 photograph, part of the historic center whose medieval and Art Nouveau architecture forms a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Latvian capital.

Riga Cathedral Latvia 2016 Riga Cathedral in Latvia, photographed in 2016; founded in 1211, it is the largest medieval church in the Baltic region and one of Riga's most recognizable landmarks.

Gate (entrance) 2017 An entrance gate photographed in Riga, Latvia, in 2017. Riga's historic core mixes centuries-old buildings with the city's celebrated Art Nouveau architecture, and its old town has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1997.

House Of The Blackheads 2018 The House of the Blackheads in Riga's Old Town, a merchants' guild hall dating to the 14th century that was destroyed during the Second World War and rebuilt in the late 1990s as one of the city's landmark buildings.

Vecrīga Historic Centre of Riga Aug 2019 025 2019 Vecrīga Historic Centre of Riga

Vecrīga Historic Centre of Riga Aug 2019 021 2019 Vecrīga Historic Centre of Riga

Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Riga 2019 The Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, a Roman Catholic church in Riga, photographed in 2019. Riga's cityscape mixes such religious architecture with the Art Nouveau buildings for which the Latvian capital is well known.

Riga Akmens tilts 2019 Akmens tilts, or Stone Bridge, one of the road crossings spanning the Daugava River in Riga, linking the Latvian capital's historic center with districts on the river's left bank.

Riga City Wall & Jacob’s Barracks 2019 A surviving stretch of Riga's medieval city wall alongside Jacob's Barracks, a long historic building in the Latvian capital's Old Town that now houses shops and cafes behind its restored facade.

Riga Latvian National Theatre 2019 The Latvian National Theatre building in Riga, home to the country's oldest professional theater company and a landmark of the capital's cultural life since the late nineteenth century.

Riga Maskavas iela 2019 Maskavas iela, a street running through Riga's Maskavas Forštate district, a historic working-class quarter on the outskirts of the Latvian capital's center along the Daugava River.

Christmas market, Riga 2024 Julmarknad i Riga den 9 december 2024.

Rainbow above Dom Square in Riga 2025 A rainbow arcs over Riga's Dom Square at dusk, with the spire of St. Peter's Church visible among the pastel-colored rooftops of the Latvian capital's Old Town, in this 2025 photograph.