Statue of Roland, Riga, Latvia
The Riga version of the mythic hero Roland. Roland was a close confidant of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne and died at the Battle of Roncevaux in 778. He was immortalized in the [...]
Rumbula Massacre Holocaust Memorial, Latvia
A visiting child left a stuffed dragon between two of the symbolic head stones behind the main memorial We had never heard of the Rumbula Massacre until we visited the Latvian Museum of [...]