Latvia's cultural experiences are most distinctive around the traditions of song and folk art that sustained national identity through occupation. Guided tours of the Latvian Open Air Ethnographic Museum — where farmsteads, churches, and workshops from across the country's regions have been relocated into a single lakeside landscape — provide a vivid introduction to regional folk culture. Art nouveau architectural walking tours in Riga, amber jewellery workshop experiences, and guided visits to the Latvian National Museum of Art extend the programme. A Latvian sauna experience with traditional rituals, and a folk dance or choir rehearsal visit during the Song Festival season, add living cultural registers. That's where it gets interesting.