Cuckoo Hill Hermana Street is named in honor of German philosopher and writer Johann Georg Hamann. Continuing out walk we soon arrive at Daugavgrivas Street which was a road that lead from the ferry in Agenskalns to Daugavgrivas Cietoksnis or Daugavgrivas Fortress at the mouth of the Daugava and then on to the winter harbor of Riga. It was different from the other streets in Pardaugava in that by the 1870s its entire length 5 kilometers was built up. Here one could find breweries, lumber mills, and textile industry processing cotton and wool and other new factories opening as quickly as they could and business was booming. Today most of these factories have been closed and the street is pretty let down. An interesting area of Pardaugava is …show more content…
Since the 17th century river pilots, ferrymen, anchormen and mast graders have lived in Ilguciems. It is amazing with what this area is famous for. Here when the German air force started the bombing of Riga in 1941 the first bomb fell on the only restaurant/tavern in Ilguciems. What is left to say about Pardaugava is that one can also find the Botanical Gardens here at Kandavas Street #2. There are a few green meadows on both sides of Marupite. On Amulas Street sculptor Indulis Ranka was carving his monumental stones when he decided to place a statue in the meadow opposite his house. What happened next was that people came to look at the statue and fellow sculptors asked to have their statues placed there also. In the past 25 years or so no name has been given to what has become a sculpture park but there are 45 granite sculptures on display. Eight Latvian sculptors are represented, one Polish sculptress, one German sculptor, one Bulgarian and six Norwegians – five men and a woman and since then some more have been added. The sculpture park starts where Kantora, Slampes and Amulas Streets come together. Now if only someone would give it a name and make it completely