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02.04.2013 |
LETA
The XXV Nationwide Song and XV Dance Festival, which will take place in Riga from June 30 to July 7, will gather over 40,000 participants, the director of the Latvian National Culture Center Dace Melbarde said during a special press conference.
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02.04.2013 |
Nozare.lv
Three Riga hotels - ''Elefant Hotel'', ''Gertrude'' and ''Old Riga Palace'' have joined the ''Wellton'' hotel chain, the on-line news portal ''Freecity.lv'' informs.
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02.04.2013 |
LETA
Several popular groups, including the critically-acclaimed "The xx" from Great Britain, will perform at the "Positivus" music festival this year, as festival organizers informed LETA.
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02.04.2013 |
Nozare.lv
The number of visitors in hotels and other accommodation establishments comprised 1.6 million in 2012, and they spent a total of 3.5 million nights in Latvia last year, according to the Central Statistical Bureau's data.
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02.04.2013 |
Nozare.lv
The multi-partner loyalty program "BalticMiles" expanded from 130 to 210 partners in 2012, up 61 percent from 2011, as the company informed the "Nozare.lv" business portal.
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02.04.2013 |
LETA
Tickets to this summer's XXV Latvian Song and Dance Festival will cost from LVL 1 to 30, according to the festival's organizers.
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02.04.2013 |
LETA -- AFP
- Lying face down in deep snow, naked, in bone chilling sub-zero weather is enough to make anyone think twice. But such are the extremes required to penetrate the mysteries of the "pirts" - Latvia's little-known and complex interpretation of what is known in other parts of the world as the sauna, banya, hammam, Roman bath or Native American sweat lodge, the AFP news agency writes in a special article.
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02.04.2013 |
Pristine - untouched nature:
As you travel just a few minutes outside of Riga or any of the other major Latvian cities, you will quickly discover that you are in the countryside.
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26.02.2013
The critically acclaimed dream pop band The xx have been added to the Positivus festival 2013 line-up as the second headliners of the festival. Other confirmed acts include the explosive Canadian duo Crystal Castles, the melodic Foxes, the Danish indie rockers Efterklang, the instrumental Elektro Guzzi as well as the Latvian cult rock band Jauns Mēness. The previously announced headliner are Sigur Rós.
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22.02.2013 |
LETA
The Latvian movie ''Dream Team 1935'' (''Sapnu Komanda 1935''), which is about the Latvian basketball team which became the first ever European champions that year, has transformed Lithuanians, at least for two hours, into Latvian basketball fans, the Lithuanian news portal ''Delfi.lt'' writes in its movie review after the Latvian movie had its premiere in Lithuania.
