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Jurmala

Dzintari Concert Hall (arch. Viktors Mellenbergs and Aleksandrs Birzenieks). Modern building: antiquity and ‘ethnic’ romanticism. Ķemeri sanatorium (arch. Ernests Stālbergs). Today it is abandoned. Restaurant Jautras Ods (Engl. Funny Mosquito) (currently, Kemeri National Park Administration, arch. Fridrichs Skujiņs), in the ‘ethnic’ romanticism style. Kemeri Hotel (arch. Eižens Laube), called The White Liner or even Latvian Versaille. An enormous building seems light as if it were floating. During the interwar period, the Jūrmala resort was called Baltic Riviera. Jūrmala consists of small individual resorts, former villages of fishermen. The distance from the Riga centre is only 25 km, and the length of the seaside is more than 26 km. The oldest Latvian resort Kemeri is known since the 19th century. Before World War I, it was so popular among the wealthy people of the Russian Empire that a railway line was built to it from Moscow.

What people say
from the eye and from the heart
Prof Rihards Pētersons,
art critic
Riga still doesn’t have a real concert hall and Dzintari in Jūrmala is the concert hall we can be proud of.
Prof Rihards Pētersons,
art critic
I don’t understand why wooden houses are being demolished and concrete, brick buildings are being built in Jūrmala. This doesn’t correspond to the spirit of Jūrmala.
Prof Rihards Pētersons,
art critic
After the opera and theatre performances, wealthy people wanted to go somewhere to have a great time. They all used to get in the cars and go to Kemeri. I think there’s nothing more fundamental and monumental in Latvia than the Kemeri hotel.
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