Will Jurmala's White Palace survive privatization?
Jul 30, 1998
By Sandra Medearis
JURMALA - The Kemeri sanitarium, an hour by train from Riga, has for six decades hosted the ailing and the aging, with mud, sulfur water and other treatments. Standing framed by trees in a French garden of 10 hectares (about 25 acres), the Kemeri is a six-story monument to neo-eclectic architecture that originated in Latvia. But the "white palace" in Jurmala, as the Kemeri is known, could be a white elephant for the Italian firm that bought the property in a privatization auction on July 18. The ...
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