Literally
Over the Daugava, the left (and cheaper) bank of the river - and the best view of Old Riga you'll get without first taking a lift twenty floors up.
The Victory Memorial is Pārdaugava's Soviet-built response to the Old Town's Freedom Monument. Seventy-nine metres high, with statues of Mother Russia and machine gun wielding Red Army soldiers, it's hardly the most subtle reminder of Latvia's status post-1945. Two locals even attempted to blow it up in the late 1990s, though the only things they succeeded in exploding were themselves.
Literally Over the Daugava, the left (and cheaper) bank of the river - and the best view of Old Riga you'll get without first taking a lift twenty floors up.
The Victory Memorial is Pārdaugava's Soviet-built response to the Old Town's Freedom Monument. Seventy-nine metres high, with statues of Mother Russia and machine gun wielding Red Army soldiers, it's hardly the most subtle reminder of Latvia's status post-1945. Two locals even attempted to blow it up in the late 1990s, though the only things they succeeded in exploding were themselves.
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