Limbaži

Built in the 13th century as a fortified residence of the Archbishop of Riga. During the 15th and 16th centuries, the castle was almost constantly inhabited by the office holders. Damaged during the Livonian War, it was turned into a pile of stones in 1602 during the Polish-Swedish war. It was partially restored in the 1990s, and now there's a piece of wall, a gate and a tower standing.

Lutheran church finished in 1680 in early baroque style. It has regular geometric shapes, a sharp spire and a modest wooden interior.

The largest Orthodox church in the Vidzeme region, it was built between 1900-03 in Neo-Byzantine style on the site of a former monastery (indeed it's on "monastery street").

This baroque building was first built by a German merchant in the 18th century, later it became the town hall of Limbaži. The building features frescoes painted in Italian Renaissance style.

A brick building with a tower. Together with the fire museum the tower is open to visitors in the summer offering nice views of the town.

The theatre next to a park was finished in 1939 in functionalist style - as such less monumental than Latvian interwar buildings.

A statue of poet and author Karlis Baumanis (1835-1905) who wrote the Latvian national hymn Dievs, svētī Latviju! ("God bless Latvia!") in 1873. He lived in Limbaži from 1882 to his death.

An Estonian entrepreneur in the 1930s wanted to have a building unlike any other, and this red brick building decorated with lion statues most definitely has no match in Limbaži.