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If you want to buy something that will
remind you of your trip to Riga, most likely it will be local handicrafts,
works of art or books. It is difficult to enumerate all kinds of items on
sale in art salons and galleries: paintings, drawings, articles made of
leather, wood, metal, amber, ceramics... Famous amber - a sun-drop in the Baltic Sea... Art salons "G&G", "Ornamenta Lettonica", "Ezerciems" offer exquisite hand-made amber jewellery, Baltic-style adornments. Ceramics are a visiting card of Latvia. Each region of the country has created its own original school of this form of applied art. And uniqueness of Latgalian ceramics has merited world acknowledgement. "Ezerciems" and "Maksla" salons are at your service. You can take our city with you as a memory and even present it to your friends and relatives. Half and hour long video film "Riga - the Pearl of the Baltics" will bring you back to the streets of Old Riga. It will tell about the history of our city, its architectural and historical monuments, it will invite you to museums and concert halls, it will lead you around picturesque city parks. And music by famous Latvian composer Raimonds Pauls will help you to create a wonderful mood. Dear guests, if you like sweets then you are lucky. Because in Riga you can buy the best chocolates and sweets in Latvia. They are manufactured by the oldest enterprise of the republic - "Laima" factory that celebrates this year its 127th anniversary. That's why together with favourite and recognized sweets - "Serenade", "Vaverite" ("Squirrel") - some new sorts of sweets have appeared. The gift box AVE SOL and chocolate assortment box "LAIMA". We have a courage to recommend a box of "Exotika" sweets with jelly-like filling of liqueur sweets "Prozit". If you need diabetic products we can tell you that since last year "Laima" have been manufacturing sugar-free chocolate "Ausma" and sweets "Diabetic". We advise you to taste the sweets of celebrating its anniversary "Laima" not only because we think they are delicious but also because we are sure: it is an ecologically clean product. Because credo of "Laima" Inc. is - high quality products without preservatives. "Riga Black Balm" is fragrant with scents of Latvian herbs. It is composed in strict correspondence with ancient recipes of monks who definitely were good connoisseurs in healing and stimulative beverages. "Black Balm" is very helpful when you catch a cold, it strengthens health and adds delicious taste to cocktails and coffee. The most original souvenir will be a loaf of "home-made" rye bread that you can buy at Riga markets. Several kinds of rye bread are baked in Latvia and foreigners who had tasted them were just delighted. After all, you can't find this kind of bread in any other country. By the way, rye bread is not only tasty but also is very good for your health. Latvian cooks make piquant pastry of rye bread and dessert rye bread soup with whipped cream has become one of the most peculiar specialties of Latvian cuisine. A lot of curiosity shops and salons have appeared in Riga lately. They offer antiquities in European style: furniture, china and glass, bronze, clocks and jewellery. In many of them you can come across Russian icons. Please note that in order to export art items and antiques (especially paintings) it is necessary to obtain permission from experts. Purchasing in salons and galleries has an advantage as the majority of them have an agreement with the Ministry of Culture and they settle all formalities themselves. In any case, please keep a bill for the purchased piece of art, which is to be produced at the Customs on departure.
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