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Riga boasts over 750 art nouveau buildings, making it the city with the most examples of this style of architecture in the world. Alberta iela is the epicentre of this phenomena and the master responsible for the majority of the buildings in this street is Mikhail Eisenstein (father of the film maker Sergei Eisenstein). The decoration on the buildings is staggering. Ferocious lion keeping watchon the roof.
P1060522
Riga boasts over 750 art nouveau buildings, making it the city with the most examples of this style of architecture in the world. Alberta iela is the epicentre of this phenomena and the master responsible for the majority of the buildings in this street is Mikhail Eisenstein (father of the film maker Sergei Eisenstein). The decoration on the buildings is staggering. Ferocious lion keeping watchon the roof.