History

House of Unity has a great history.

The city of Riga

Riga was a major centre of the Hanseatic League, deri­ving its prosperity in the 13^th-15^th centuries from the trade with central and eastern Europe. The urban fabric of its medieval centre reflects this prosperity, though most of the earliest buil­dings were destroyed by fire or war. Riga became an important economic centre in the 19^th century, when the suburbs surroun­ding the medieval town were laid out, first with impo­sing woo­den buil­dings in neoclassical style and then in Jugendstil. It is generally recognized that Riga has the finest collection of art nouveau buil­dings in Europe.