Attention, this is national scale cultural monument!!!
The visitors are pleased to act carefully and with respect to cultural monument. For intentional or accidental damage can be applied administrative liability.
Description
Not far from the “Three Brothers” on Jēkaba iela 11 there is a famous architectural monument of newer times: Vidzeme House of the Knighthood (presently the Saeima (Parliament) of the Republic of Latvia. It was built in 1863 to 1867 after a design by Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis (1834 – 1891), the first academically educated Latvian architect, and his colleague Roberts Pflūgs (1832 - 1885). The authors of this respectable historic building derived their inspiration from the Renaissance period in the architecture of Florence Castles. In 1900 – 1903 the House of the Knighthood was considerably expanded (author of the design - Vilhelms Neimanis), but in the forthcoming decades its interiors were changed several times.