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29.04.2013 |
LETA
Riga will celebrate the May 4 Restoration of Independence Day with various concerts, athletic events, art and music performances, events for children, and the traditional "flower carpet" at the Freedom Monument.
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29.04.2013 |
LETA
The Mark Rothko Art Center will hold its ceremonial opening at the former Arsenal Building at the Daugavpils Fortress in Daugavpils (southeastern Latvia), LETA was informed by the art center's marketing specialist, Inga Goldberga.
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19.04.2013 |
LETA
The World Choir Games will be held in Riga next summer, bringing choirs from all over the world to Latvia for ten days.
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19.04.2013 |
LETA--AFP
As spring melts away a long winter deep in Latvia's vast forests, the stillness is almost imperceptibly broken by a rhythmic drip, drip, drip. A small black tube protrudes from the trunk of a leafless tree growing among spruces, birches and pines. Trickling from it, into a plastic bag suspended below, is a clear, sweet, watery sap which has been one of this country's most popular drinks for centuries.
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19.04.2013 |
Nozare.lv
National airline "airBaltic" will launch a new route from Riga to the tourist resort of Larnaca, Cyprus, the airline informed "Nozare.lv".
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19.04.2013 |
LETA
The Latvian pop-rock band ''Brainstorm'' (''Prata Vetra'') will perform at this year's Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom, where they will take the stage the same day as the legendary ''The Rolling Stones'', the newspaper ''Diena'' reports today.
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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.
