Private chauffeur in Riga

The largest city in the Baltics, Riga pairs a Hanseatic old town — the House of the Blackheads, the Dome Cathedral, St Peter’s Church — with Europe’s densest collection of Art Nouveau façades, concentrated on Alberta and Elizabetes streets under Mikhail Eisenstein’s signature. Your private chauffeur in Riga links the airport to the centre in twenty minutes and serves the hotels on both banks of the Daugava and the central market beneath its Zeppelin halls.

Thirty minutes from the centre, Jūrmala lines up thirty-three kilometres of white-sand beach and its listed wooden villas — the Baltic’s historic seaside resort. To the south, the Baroque palace of Rundāle, designed by Rastrelli — architect of the Winter Palace — deserves a full day; to the east, the Gauja National Park opens Sigulda, Turaida and their castles. The Baltic summer is gentle, the winter photogenic.