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Swedish Gate
The last surviving gate of the old city walls, cut through a house in 1698, near the round Powder Tower.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 20 minutes
- Address
- Torņa iela 11, LV-1050 RigaDirections
- Getting There
- In the north of the Old Town.
Why Go
The gate was made when Riga was part of the Swedish Empire, to let soldiers reach their barracks outside the walls. A stretch of rebuilt wall runs along Jēkaba iela, and the Powder Tower, from the 14th century, holds the Latvian War Museum.
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