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Alberta iela (Alberta Street) is the crown jewel of Riga's Art Nouveau heritage — a single city block containing eight buildings designed by Mikhail Eisenstein between 1901 and 1906. The street's flamboyant facades are among the most elaborate in Europe, dripping with mythological figures, screaming masks, and ornamental ironwork.
The street was developed in 1901–1906 during Riga's unprecedented building boom. Mikhail Eisenstein — father of filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein — designed most of the buildings in a theatrical Decorative Art Nouveau style that made the street internationally famous.