Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Greettings from Latvia!!!, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
The buildings all throughout Riga are fantastic examples of 19th Century Art Nouveau architecture. Nowhere else in Europe there are this many! Riga has 750 buildings of all sorts in this style, which makes it look like castles everywhere!
Because of this, in 1997, the historical center of Riga was included in the list of the UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage as a "masterpiece of global and human creative genius".

The city and all the streets are filled with these beautiful buildings sporting ancient Greek and Roman mythological characters on their facades, roofs, eves, doorways, and such.

Many of these buildings have been cleaned off and re-painted. The difference between the "uncleaned" and the "cleaned-up" ones is like night and day. It costs a lot of money to renovate a building.

I hope to show you as many of these as I can.