>>25652275
Riga was founded in 1201 by German crusader knights, and old town is a lot of old German buildings and some monumental buildings built during the time of the first republic. It has 5000 or so bars.
If you want to see soviet commieblocks and that stuff you can find them on the outskirts of the city mostly.
I think it's a neat place to visit. But if you have the time it's worth getting on the very cheap train and going to Sigulda and Cesis, both to see old castles but also because they have nature trails and it's a nice place to walk around when the weather is nice.
>>25652271
In the old town especially there are those girls going around in pairs trying to scam foreigners. It's not so common, but it's around. Favourite activity of Brits is to go to a sports bar with the lads and sing horrible football songs and buy """""cocaine""""" from jeets on those tourist ricksaws and get scammed into going to a strip club to pay 5000 euros to see Svetlana 38, mother of three, doing a strip show, then they will go and get arrested for trying to piss on the freedom statue.