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Key facts
- Architectural style
- Late Classicism
- Location
- Riga , Latvia
- Renovated
- 2012–2016
- Owner
- Republic of Latvia
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- castle
- Country
- Latvia
- Located in
- Riga
- Elevation
- 9
- Owned by
- Livonian Brothers of the Sword
- Official website
- www.president.lv/pk/content/?cat_id=11&lng=en
- Image
- 2006 09 14-17 RigaFortress054.jpg
- Has use
- official residence
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- Commons category
- Riga Castle
- Commons gallery
- Riga Castle
- inception
- 1330-01-01
- street address
- Pils laukums 3
- P6482
- Riga Castle
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- native label
- Rīgas pils
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Riga Castle (Latvian: Rīgas pils) is a castle on the banks of River Daugava in Riga, the capital of Latvia. The castle was founded in 1330. Its structure was thoroughly rebuilt between 1497 and 1515. Upon the castle's seizure by the Swedes, they constructed spacious annexes in 1641. The fortress was continually augmented and reconstructed between the 17th and 19th centuries. Sometime in the 1930s, some renovation work was done by architect Eižens Laube. The Latvian government declared the castle its residence in 1938. Today it is the official residence of the President of Latvia as well as home to several museums.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Riga Castle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.