# Stone for an elm planted by Peter I

> This file is a plain-text rendition of a page on mytuur.com, generated from the same data as the HTML version.

Canonical page: https://mytuur.com/en/city/riga/spot/akmens-petera-i-staditajai-gobai/

Content updated: 2026-06-22

This page is about one place: Stone for an elm planted by Peter I, a spot in Riga with a story of its own. The story itself lives in the myTuur app, and it begins when you arrive and the app knows you are standing there.

- City: [Riga](https://mytuur.com/en/city/riga/)

## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StonefortheElmPlantedbyPeterI_68750ba6622f9d68e0bc0452_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rīga,_Aleksandra_vārti_2002-10-14.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StonefortheElmPlantedbyPeterI_68750ba6622f9d68e0bc0452_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kamn.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StonefortheElmPlantedbyPeterI_68750ba6622f9d68e0bc0452_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rīga,_Dziesmu_svētku_piemiņas_ansamblis_2002-10-14_-_panoramio.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StonefortheElmPlantedbyPeterI_68750ba6622f9d68e0bc0452_3.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rīga,_Dziesmu_svētku_piemiņas_akmens_2002-10-14_-_panoramio.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StonefortheElmPlantedbyPeterI_68750ba6622f9d68e0bc0452_4.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rīga,_Baumaņu_Kārļa_piemiņas_zīme_2003-07-07_-_panoramio.jpg)

Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Riga. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.

## What is myTuur?

myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.