At present, there may be around four thousand wooden buildings and structures in Riga.

You just need to look

A relatively large number of wooden houses can be found not only in Kuldīga, whose old town is a candidate for UNESCO World Heritage status, but also in Liepāja, Aizpute, Jūrmala and other Latvian towns, although not all wooden buildings are destined to become architectural monuments.

There are also dilapidated and unmaintained structures, as Latvia's unfavourable climatic conditions are highly destructive to wooden buildings left without owners.