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Protected: Tour for Polish Institute: BUCHAREST AS THE LITTLE PARIS OF THE BALKANS

23/11/201130/11/2011Valentin Mandache

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Architectural Heritage, Bucharest, Little Paris Architecture of Romania, Bucharest, Eastern Europe, History, Identity, La Belle Epoque, Little Paris, Little Paris of the Balkans, Romania, Romanian Architecture, South East Europe

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Neglected Neo-Romanian style frieze and facade defaced by ignorant renovations in full disregard of heritage protection laws and rules, an ubiquitous scene in the whole of Bucharest, the fifth largest EU capital, but just in name, certainly not in civilisation. Gara de Nord area. #neoromanian #bucharest #garadenord #1930s #balkans #sputheasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
Pseudo-Wallachian portals of Maramures wooden churches from the collection of Sighetul Marmatiei Ethnographic Museum. #portal #woodenchurch #wallachian #pseudowallachian #maramures #sighetulmarmatiei #ethnographicmuseum #sputheasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
This is probably the most valuable art assembly of the town of Buzau in SE Romania: sculptor Constantin Brancusi’s Prayer monument, a tomb in Dumbrava cemetery. It was installed in 1914, one year after the New York’s Armoury Show, which brought worldwide fame to this artist. The female statue is a copy, the original being kept at the Nationals Museum of Art in Bucharest. The copy was stolen numerous times in the 1990s and the 2000s when the locals thought they could get rich over the night on the Western art markets, which prompted the authorities to write clearly on the plinth that is not an original, and thus put a stop to thieving. #prayer #rugaciune #brancusi #constantinbrancusi #dumbrava #cemetery #buzau #southeasteurope #balkans #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
Orientalist style gazebo/ kiosk tombs, from the 1890s era, in Dumbrava cemetery, Buzau, SE Romania. #ironworker #tomb #gazebo #kiosk #1890s #buzau #dumbrava #cemetery #casedeepoca #southeasteurope #valentinmandache #orientalist
Sunset seen through the 1890s Little Paris style glass and ironwork of a “tea pavilion” tomb in Dumbrava cemetery of Buzau, SE Romania. #littleparis #labelleepoque #cemetery #ironwork #dumbrava #buzau #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
A charming Little Paris style tomb, with Orientalist/ Early Neo-Romanian elements, from the 1890s, in Dumbrava cemetery, Buzau, SE Romania. #littleparis #earlyneoromanian #neoromanian #tomb #cemetery #1890s #buzau #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
An unusually long table and benches, made from single trunks of oak, like the ship masts, unfurling on the full length of the southern side of Rogoz wooden church (built in the 17th c), in Lapus Country/ Maramures. The table is called the Elders’ Table (‘Masa Mosilor’ in Ro), used for communal festival meals, and protected from inclement weather by an ample roof eave. #oaktable #woodenchurch #rogoz #taralapusului #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
The typical Maramures style wooden gates of the priest’s house in the village of Breb (Romanian for beaver). #maramuresgates #woodengates #gates #breb #maramures #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache
Monumental Szekler gates in the village of Acatari/ Akosfalva, Mures county, Transylvania. #woodengates #szeklergates #ákosfalva #transylvania #ethnography #southeasteurope #casedeepoca #valentinmandache

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