{"id":82374,"date":"2026-05-14T11:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/82374\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:31:42","slug":"christmas-market-in-rigas-old-town-opens-this-week-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/82374\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Market in R\u012bga&#8217;s Old Town opens this week \/ Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take note \u2013 story published 1 year and 5 months ago<\/p>\n<p>The Old Town Christmas Market in Doma Square will open on Friday, November 29 and will remain open until 2 January 2025. This will be the 24th year that the market will bring people together to celebrate Christmas and enjoy a wide cultural program, the organizers said.<\/p>\n<p>Doma Square will be the place to see and buy homemade products and crafts, souvenirs, as well as a variety of food and drink from more than 80 traders.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, November 30 , at 17.00, the Riga Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony will take place.\u00a0On December 1, the First Sunday of Advent, Elizabete Gaile will perform at 17.00.<\/p>\n<p>Latvian craftspeople\u00a0and home producers will be selling wickerwork, wooden products and toys, knitted items, amber and silver jewelry, games, decorations, leather goods, candles, as well as various food and drinks &#8211; honey, gingerbread, hemp, meat products, jams, sauces, syrups, hot and cold beverages.<\/p>\n<p>On December 31 , the New Year&#8217;s Eve event will be celebrated with a performance by the group &#8220;Ball\u012b\u0161u krustt\u0113vi&#8221; at 20:00 and DJ Toms Gr\u0113vi\u0146\u0161 at 22:00, who will invite everyone to dance together until 02:00.<\/p>\n<p>Opening hours of the Old Riga Christmas Market:<\/p>\n<p>Monday &#8211; Thursday, 11:00-21:00<\/p>\n<p>Friday &#8211; Saturday, 10:00-22:00<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 10:00-20:00<\/p>\n<p>Opening hours on public holidays:<\/p>\n<p>December 24 &#8211; 10:00-20:00<\/p>\n<p>December 25, 26 &#8211; 10:00-20:00<\/p>\n<p>December 31 &#8211; 10:00-02:00<\/p>\n<p>January 1 &#8211; 12:00-20:00<\/p>\n<p>                    Seen a mistake?<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none d-md-block\">Select text and press Ctrl+Enter to send a suggested correction to the editor<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-md-none\">Select text and press Report a mistake to send a suggested correction to the editor<\/p>\n<p>\n                    Tell us about a mistake\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take note \u2013 story published 1 year and 5 months ago The Old Town Christmas Market in Doma&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[169,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-82374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-riga","8":"tag-latvia","9":"tag-riga"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116572709514065052","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}