Riga Shopping
Other big name shops include Hugo Boss, Terbatas 53, and Benetton, Brivibas 47. A number of Latvian products are of interest to overseas visitors. Antiques are the main one but they require a licence from the Inspection Board for History and Culture and the Protection of Monuments, Pils 22, before any valuables can be exported. The best place to look for antiques is at specialist shops like Antiqua, Kr Valdemara 20; Tango, Dzirnavu 66, and Volmar, Brivibas 39. Among the best souvenir shops are Ezerciems, Kalku 7-9, Mara, Kaleju 9-11 and Souvenir, Aspazijas 30. The main market in town is the Central Market, Negu 7 (see Key Attractions), open Tuesday to Saturday 0700-1800, Sunday and Monday 0700-1700.
Standard shopping hours of 0900-1700 are the norm, with reduced opening hours on weekends. Shops are no longer closed for lunch, as they were in the Soviet times, and most of the supermarkets are open until 2200. Sales tax is currently 18% but 12 to15% of this can be claimed back for non-EU citizens with Tax Free Shopping (tel: 6721 2590; website: www.taxfree.lv).
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