Central European Lines

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

That's steep

Yes,just too steep for my "taste"

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

After shooting session I left that mixture between old and young,teachers and their former students,waking through the town.I arrived at the center of the town founding the District Prefecture Palace.Under the rule of the king Carol The First,in every district capital,were constructed such buildings.This one is from the beginning of 20th c.The perennial use as symbol of the power assured to the building a good looking image.The musical fountain from the foreground,which not working,increases the desert aspect of this square accentuating the distance between administration and the ordinary people.

[arith]

Very fine building.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Very fine building.

Yes,is a Romanian style architecture emphasized by our kings.


Although smaller the Mayor's Palace is still a good looking building.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Every house,like the people,has its proper fate.Of course they will die sooner or later.Before the death they get old.As you see below this beauty get old ugly.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

This,like a small palace house,from the first half of the19th c.has more luck.It was selected to get young again.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

On the other side of the same street another house from 19th c.is now a kind of club of the teachers from the university.

[arith]

Fine architecture invaded by wires. The windows are very ornate and I can imagine what it was like when it was young.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Trying to create a new human being,the "developers" of the Communism built these flats.After December 1989 the former Communists,who stand up over the people again and who teaches to the stupids Democracy and Principles of the Capitalism ,constructed this fountains-without water- to better the look of these monstrosities.

Fine architecture invaded by wires. The windows are very ornate and I can imagine what it was like when it was young.

As usually you are right.Thanks.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

It says that this man was militiaman before 1989.Then he commuted himself or,maybe,he was commuted by "Them" into the owner of local soccer team.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Behind this personage there is the building of Minerva Hotel and Restaurant-a national monument of architecture from the beginning of 20th c.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

On this street there are not only like abandoned houses.This church stays still on from 18th c.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Although these houses seem to be abandoned,they are inhabited.Then,why their look is so bad.The simplest but perverse answer could be a money matter.In 1948 the communists begun to confiscate these houses and to arrest or to chase out the owners

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

These houses,which were administrated by the communists were ruined by lodgers.Now,the owners,who received back the destroyed houses from the "new" administration,wait to be repaired by the communists' successors.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

After the communists finished the borrowed money from the Western countries,the trying of pulling down the history of this town was stopped.In such way,it could say,that almost 200 monuments from this town was saved.To commemorate the memory of The King Carol The First,who pushed Craiova toward modernization,a statue was raised in front of this high-school from the 19th c.,not too many years ago.But to write the name Carol I is a very hard mission for the former communists.

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

Although I was disappointed during this walk,when I saw these teenagers,in the front of the National Theater,at a kind of an advertising show with a lot of music and dance, my hope raised again.

[Dulaigh]

Perhaps the shadows are spectres of the past guarding their legacy. Is the Lyric theatre named after a Greek ?

[arith]

On this street there are not only like abandoned houses.This church stays still on from 18th c.

This is amazing.

[kdoc856]

On this street there are not only like abandoned houses.This church stays still on from 18th c.

Absolutely stunning

[Radu Dinu Cordeanu]

I was not at home,so I saw your commentaries just now.Thanks to all very much!!!!!