Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (89):
All over Europe
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
On November 5, 2020
I noticed a superb building in Neo-Romanian style on the Patriarchy Hill.
A day later I decided to try a tour of several special buildings, in different styles, beautiful just like earthly nebulae.
But November 6 was a cloudy day and the Sun had a strange aspect, small with a blue aura, so the images could not be adorned too much by his generous light.
Here is the list of the buildings which I photographed that day when, although I did not leave my dear city, I traveled in time and space all over Europe:
-The Palace of Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See (inaugurated in 1901, Italian style - especially baroque - and architect, sponsored by the Catholic Episcope of Bucharest, the state of Switzerland and King Carol I).
-The “cyborg building” (former Penescu House, made in the 1870s in French Renaissance style, former headquarters of the Embassy of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, burnt in 1989 during the anti-communist revolution and remade in combination with a modern building by the Architects’ Union).
-The Cantacuzino Palace or “the house of stone lions” (inaugurated in 1902, French baroque style, which belonged to an illustrious Romanian family with roots in the Byzantine imperial dynasty).
-The “Normand house” (made in the 1930s by the Order of Augustan Assumptionists).
-The Assan House (inaugurated in 1914, French Neo-Classic style, current the “house of scientists”).
-The current “house of university teachers” (made in the 1860s, Neo-Gothic style).
Then I found two other interesting buildings: one on the Latin Street (Mudejar style) and one on the Armenian Street, and finally I stopped in front of a building with colored solar symbols, “the Moorish house” (!), which made me think of the great Muslim Andalusian astronomers...
(Oh, magnificent Azrachel
And your solar apogee model!).
Above me, even the Sun was so impressed by my tour that,
for a few hours,
he seemed frozen to the same appearance.
#poetry