Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (348):
Replacing the Pleiades at the Cretulescu Palace
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
On October 22 and 23, 2020, I walked through the most beautiful park in my city, the Cismigiu Garden.
Although arranged by a Viennese expert (Wilhelm Mayer) in the 1850s, this park (whose construction began in the 1780s) has a French zone with the monument to the French hero from the First World War (with a wounded French soldier and a Romanian nurse who takes care of him - a small French army helping the Romanian Royal Army to stop the invasion of the Central Powers in battles in Marasesti, Marasti and Oituz in 1917 and to save the Romanian state), a small lake and the Cretulescu Palace (dreamed and desired by a Romanian aristocratic lady, Elena Kretulescu, and designed by the architect Petre Antonescu in the 1900s) - an architectural masterpiece in the style of French Renaissance, times reminding of Châteaux of the Loire Valley and “La Pleiade” (a famous group of French poets from the 16th century).
And because I couldn't catch the Pleiades star cluster near that palace,
I preferred to complete its image with the three heavenly bodies reproduced on the Romanian coat of arms:
the Sun, the Moon and Jupiter in the role of the “brightest star”.
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