Quarter of Kalnciema Street

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Why tourists go to Riga? First of all, for the sake of the Old City - losing sight of the fact that the Daugava River has a left bank. Meanwhile, it's very worthwhile to go "beyond". And if the Riga TV Tower is enough to survey the outside, then in the quiet old districts of Pardaugava there can be something no less interesting than in the well-groomed and along the center.

On Sundays almost all year round in the quarter of Kalnciema Street are the fairs known to the whole of Zadvin.

Quarter of Kalnciema Street - a fashionable place with a touching holiday atmosphere . When planning it, the main ideologists, the brothers Daburgs, kept two goals in mind . First, the propaganda and popularization of the Latvian culture, traditions, cuisine and agriculture . Secondly, The liberalization of the Zadvinja in general and the creation of an interesting space for local (and not only) residents to visit on the left bank of the river . Here in a small courtyard with historical wooden buildings, an art gallery, fairy trays with farm products, several designer shops, an outdoor area for concerts, a wine boutique and a restaurant Maja .

The whole quarter is very small: there will be too many days and even half of it for inspection. But he is on his way from / to Riga airport. And that's why it's an ideal place to spend a couple of hours here, for example, during the connection of Air Baltic flights. With benefit for the stomach and mood.

Old houses of the 18-19th centuries on the corner with Melnsil street, built in the style of classicism and suburban eclecticism, were restored not so long ago and at a good European level . On Sundays almost all year round in the quarter streets Kalnciema are fairs known throughout the Zadvinya . For children there are classes of traditional handicrafts and handicraft workshops, and the restaurant Maja is an old beautiful carousel . Adults can wallow in hammocks, sit on the grass under the apple trees and, of course, buy eco logically pure products from farms: cheese and butter, vegetable and fruit preparations, mushrooms, honey, herbal collections . There is also a brisk trade in everything that can be eaten, "without departing from the ticket office," and designer gizmos from ceramics, glass , tree and t . .

Kalnciema Quarter

The Maja Restaurant (translated as "home"), managed by the well-known telecommunications operator in Latvia, Martynish Sirmais . Basic principles institutions coincide with the general atmosphere of the quarter: it is ecological and natural ness . Before the facade boxes with fresh vegetables and household preparations are on display, and the restored wooden house reminds either the manor of the middle-class landlord, or the clean little Moscow suburban dacha . In Maja you can taste traditional Latvian dishes in modern reading: minimum heat treatment and the most healthy .

The price list of the institution is not suburban, but quite a metropolitan. But the quality of the products and the sense of balance of the chef are very encouraging: in Maja they are able not to re-train, and not to re-simplify. For dessert it is worth to take a farm goat cheese with marmalade and nuts, fresh, soft and moderately greasy.

Quarter of Kalnciema Street

Bank Building, Quarter of the Street Kalnciema