Kalnciema Street is a popular tourist place and a favorite corner of the citizens, located on the picturesque left bank of the full-flowing Western Dvina in Zemgale Suburb, a working district in Riga with 20th-century architecture. With a length of more than 5.5 kilometers, the street forms a quarter that has become one of the main attractions of the Latvian capital.

Once, this place had been covered with dunes until the local judge Heinrich von Agen decided to build a manor house here in the 19th century. The luxurious wooden mansion was the first residential building in the area, followed by other houses and municipal buildings. Many architectural monuments have been preserved. Today, they house expensive designer boutiques, exhibitions, and museums. On weekends, farmers gather in their charming courtyards to organize rural fairs. It is especially lively here these days because hardly anyone will voluntarily refuse to taste the dishes and drinks of the national Latvian cuisine or visit the masters of ancient crafts.

It is not boring in Kalnciema Quarter even on workdays, as there are restaurants, including the world-famous one called "Māja". And of course, it is especially pleasant to come to the quarter during Christmas or Easter, as well as the Ligo folk festival, one of the grandest events in Latvia.

This place is not just the city quarter, which regularly hosts various cultural events. It can also be called an open-air museum of Riga's wooden architecture. Many local architectural monuments were created by renowned creators, including the Latvian architects Janis Friedrich Baumanis and Reingold Georg Schmeling, the civil engineer Edmund von Trompovsky and the German architect Alfred Aschenkampff. All of the monuments have been restored. So today, they look just like in the 19th-20th centuries. Even the air here is filled with the scent of the distant past, which is both unfamiliar and dearly beloved.