Since 1873, the Latvian Song and Dance Festival have been a significant event in Latvian culture and social life, held every five years. During the festivals, exhibitions of photography, art and folk craft, orchestra concerts, and a festive parade also occur.

Events and competitions leading up to the event occur throughout the period between festivals. Around 30,000 performers altogether participate in the event, making it one of the most significant events in Europe.

Riga City Festival is one of the biggest Latvia cultural festivals, making the capital city of Riga turn into a lively carnival arena during the week of the festival. The festival offers free open-air concerts and entertainment for all, many people flocking over all the parks and gardens to witness the incredible fireworks show.

Tourists take to the streets with fun and frolic and blend in with the locals to celebrate their food, music, art, and entertainment culture. 

Students Paradīze is the most extravagant celebration of the opening academic year in Baltics that will gather together thousands of students in Arena Riga. Around 10,000 students and visitors from Latvia enjoy performances and parties to welcome the new school calendar.

Students Paradīze is organized to create a feeling of unity amongst students and manage one celebration of the opening academic year for all Latvian students. Students can join several stages at this event, where many different artists from Latvia and other countries perform. 

Latvia's summer solstice or mid-summer festival is a modern pagan celebration. One famous, lively, and colorful festival, the mid-summer festival, celebrates annually between the 23rd and 24th of June. Local and tourists enjoy many exciting activities, including drinking beer by the bonfire, grilling meat, eating the traditional Midsummer cheese, and singing and dancing to seasonally-specific folk songs in the open air.

Traditionally, many women make and wear wreaths from wildflowers, one of the most beautiful midsummer customs. The usual choice for ladies' flower crowns are daisies, cornflowers, and clover.

The Latvian Beer Fest in May is a massive annual event in the Baltic States, offering an exciting adventure and a genuine beer in the heart of Riga City, in Vermane Garden.

The festival brings together the best craft beers offered by nearly fifty breweries, which taste hundreds of flavors and aromas. In addition, there are plenty of musical performances and competitions the festival has to offer.

Begun in 2005, the Riga Salsa Festival is one of Latvia's capital's famous and big celebrations, held annually in June. Many salsa dancers from nearby countries like Spain and Portugal flock to the city to join the largest salsa event in the Baltic Region, one of the most popular in Europe.

The festival hosts live performances from world-renowned salsa artists, workshops, salsa masterclasses, and a salsa ball.

The Riga Opera Festival's annual music festival celebrates and promotes Latvian singers and musicians to the rest of the world. It was originated in 1998; since then, it has become part of the country's tradition. 

The opera is organized in the capital city, Riga, where thousands of Latvians and international melophiles gather in millions to celebrate the art of music. 

Kemeri National Park is the third-largest and most stunning national park in the country, occupied mainly through mires and forests, known for its Kemeri bog, biological diversity, therapeutic mud, and mineral waters.

Kemeri National Park is home to ferns, moss, and transitional bogs due to its wetlands. Ķemeri National Park has short and long boardwalk trails, with an observation platform famous with photographers for sunrise and sunset scenes.

A stunningly beautiful cape on the Baltic Sea, near the entrance to the Gulf of Riga, Cape Kolka, the cape is enchantingly desolate and hauntingly beautiful. Cape Kolka is the best place to consider for those who love vacations on the beach.

Cape Kolka is an excellent place to watch migratory birds; dozens of thousands of birds fly over the cape during the bird migration.

The Latvian National Opera and Ballet is an opera house featuring world-class classical opera, modern opera, and children's opera-ballet performances.

The most prominent cultural offers include the magnificent Opera House, various music halls, and independent cinemas.

Riga is one of the significant cities in the Baltic. Riga's historical center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, home to many medieval buildings in the Old Town, unique examples of Art Nouveau, and wooden architecture that has survived the centuries modern architectural treasures.

 Rīga is a short drive from the jet-setting sea resort, Jūrmala, with a stunning white-sand beach. If you are craving solitude and a pristine environment, gorgeous sea dunes and blueberry-filled forests begin right outside the city boundaries. 

Riga Motor Museum houses the most extensive array of antique motor vehicles in the Baltic. An exhibition at the museum shows the story created for antique cars, famous people, and the most historical events in the automotive world.

The museum consists of three floors, each with a different theme. The ground floor starts with the history of the automobile. The first floor focuses on motorsports, cars of cultural significance, and the soviet car industry, including a collection of soviet state cars used to transport soviet leaders safely and luxuriously. The basement contains a range of trucks and particular vehicles, including fire trucks, ambulances, and other early unique cars.

Jūrmala is a beautiful resort town nestled between the Gulf of Riga and the Lielupe River. It is a famous tourist attraction with long beaches facing the Gulf of Riga and romantic wooden houses in the Art Nouveau style.

 Jūrmala houses one of the largest water amusement parks in Northern Europe, the Livu Akvaparks. The three floors of Līvu Akvaparks include more than 20 slides, more than ten pools of various depths and sizes, attractions for children, a SPA complex with four saunas, a cold pool, a salt chamber, bubble baths, and air and underwater massage facilities.

Cēsis Castle is Latvia's most well-known and best-preserved medieval castle. The primary site of interest in the castle is the Western Tower, which attracts thousands of visitors with the Master's Chamber and the chance of getting a bird's eye view of the stunning surroundings. The loft windows open to the scenery of the captivating surroundings of Cēsis in all its glory.