Postcard
Riga served as a gateway to trade with the Baltic
tribes and with Russia. The city became a member of the Hanseatic League in
1282.
The House of Blackheads was first mentioned in 1334. The
Riga council rented the main hall to the Blackhead Brotherhood - a guild of
young unmarried foreign merchants. As their patron, they chose St Maurice,
whose paintings and sculptures tended to show him as a dark-skinned soldier
dressed in armour.
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