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Powder Tower, which often has a colourful creeper on it according to pictures. Not today, the winter cold must have killed it off

This building is painted with the Coat of Arms of Latvian towns. It used to have a big bank emblem in the yellow blank area, but the bank closed and was declared insolvent due to bankruptcy and fraud! So no wonder they painted over the logo!

This reads: Get a job. Go to work. Get married. Have children. Follow fashion. Act normal. Walk on the pavement. Watch TV. Obey the law. Save for your old age. Now repeat after me “I AM FREE”.

Some quite political statements in English in Riga

Ex-Soviet building? Certainly looked imposing!