Central European Lines

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

These wooden houses were built from the end of 18th c.until the the beginning of the 19th c.and are,now, distinctive for the Nessebar.These houses will not,probably,impress you.This place was one of many natural and not only natural calamities so the aspect of a cheap and provisional state is visible.All these if we should see comparing with the German wooden masterpiece from Alsace.



That could define the diversity of the history and of the people who were pressed by their history.Their hope?...Those few English words

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Basilica Virgin Merciful from 6th c.which was transformed in monastery in 14th c.,probably.Then it disappeared and was discovered in 1920.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Walking on these streets where beauty,poorness and oldness live together one could ask what it happened here in the past when people renounced at bricks and stone for wood.It could be those strange names of the streets like Krum,Asparukh,Omurtag,Basil Bulgaroktonos,Ivan,etc which come from the history or natural disasters or, who knows,other deadly combinations

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

If sun sea beach are together the wine must be nearby.There is written "vinaria"which means wine bar.Now,when the summer and holidays gone,it is closed.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

I am a disorderly tourist,I never notice what I see and in my head is a medley of noises,smells, colors, images,hard to localize and to illustrate in my picture.So I am not sure if this image is from St.Paraskeva church.I hope to be.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Those who lived here in 10th c.built St.John the Baptist church,a beauty.

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[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

I like the captured pictures.Looks so great.Indeed, I love the "Klickit". Very nice lines.Looks so matrix.Thanks for the nice spot.

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I'm glad you liked them.Thank you.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

From 14th c. came until us this monument of Pantocrator Christ with nice ornaments in the shape of swastica and not only

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

If someone should not know these are by wood he could believe the Tuscany-Italy is here

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Although majority of these monuments have their inside closed for tourists,

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

I succeeded in photographing behind the closed door but,in this case,the disappointment could be an ordinary presence.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Of course,not all tourists are interested in such empty interiors,rather to find the bargains of these places

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

However there is a monument which was restored and transformed in a museum.Its inside is opened to visit,but it's difficult to photograph because of the watching cameras for those who don't pay a tax for that(the ticket for the access doesn't include it)
The pulpit and episcopal chair are remarkably.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

The altar is at the East side of the church.Always,on the North door of the altar screen St.Archangel Michael is painted.Here,He was worn as soldier with his feet on a fallen(corrupt) angel.Of course on the South side is St.Archangel Gabriel.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

The beauty of the top side of the altar screen show to the visitors,again,the love of those people for their faith.

[GEORDIE]

Brilliant picture Radu, I couldn't stop looking. Amazing you could see that title in there.
My first ever comment to a post, very new photographer.

Cheers Colin.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Brilliant picture Radu, I couldn't stop looking. Amazing you could see that title in there.
My first ever comment to a post, very new photographer.

Cheers Colin.

Thanks for your words.
The name of this monument is St.Stephan church and from 11th c. came to us this East wall with three apses.The rest of it was rebuilt in 16th and 17th c.,inside paint being from the end of 16th c.and until us remained around 1,000 faces(portraits)!

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

It is interesting to observe that here in Nessebar,Ottomans built only a bath in 17th c.,now a ruin and a fountain,in 18th c.,still in service.I photographed it in such way to show to the onlooker the dualistic character(one could say too much for a fountain)of the Ottoman power which believed it will stay here for the eternity and in the same time the entire lasciviousness of the haunches who moved behind the seraglios' doors.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Why the ottomans didn't build a mosque here,in Nessebar?The easiest answer could be that this place had a"minus gamma" rank-in nowadays terms of globalization.The Ottomans' points of interest were marked by mosques.For example the place of the capital of Bulgaria,Sofia,whose importance was recognized by Turk administration,for the first time,being named the capital of Rumelia province and where they built Banya Bashy mosque,still in service