For travellers, the best thing about Latvia is that it is so compact. Its 500 km of sandy beaches are easily reached from historical towns, where medieval hanseatic foundations support baroque and art nouveau buildings, that become venues for cultural festivals during the summer. Families of storks happily give their seal of approval to the unspoilt nature, fresh air and clean water around them. In addition to Riga, its spectacular gateway, there are 6 other UNESCO world heritage listed sites. A

The legendary Bolshoi Theatre is a way and a symbol of Russian culture. Before you see with your own eyes the Russian classics – operas by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Asafiev; outstanding ballets by Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Puccini and Beethoven, famous “Carmen” by Bizet – Baltma Tours offers during the excursion to visit the auditorium, to sit in the front row of the stalls, to see the Government, the Imperial and the Guest boxes, the upper rehearsal scene, the Beethoven

Escape to one of the premier Moscow, Russian hotels and take a journey to a place where legends and history surround you at every turn. The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow lies at the edge of the famed Red Square – the site of coronations and celebrations. Today, this symbolic space serves as a cultural epicenter of one of the world’s great cities and invites visitors to share in its many wonders, just moments from the hotel. As one of the premier hotel destinations for conferences The Ritz-Carlton

This art depository was inaugurated in 1979, to become Russia’s first and only Amber Museum. Located in the center of Kaliningrad on the Verkhneye Lake shore, it is housed in a fortress tower "Dona" dating from the mid-nineteenth century. The tower was built in 1853 in the Neo-Gothic style as a part of the city defense system – its construction was supervised by Ernst Ludwig von Aster, commander of the Engineering Corps and the person, who had engineered Konigsberg’s mighty