Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (99):
The Square where the Sun Sets
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)
The Opera Square is a place in Bucharest where the Sun sets, usually near the Saint Elefterie (Eleftherios) Church.
On November 11, 2020
I took pictures in that square where two beautiful buildings dominate the ambiance:
1. The Palace of the Romanian National Opera (made in the 1950s, architect Octav Doicescu), with the statue of the Romanian national genius in music, George Enescu (author of “Romanian Rhapsody”).
2. The Palace of the Faculty of Law (made in the 1930s, architect Petre Antonescu), with the statues of Spartan Lycurg, Athenian Solon, Roman martyrs Cicero and Papinian, and the Byzantine emperor Justinian, founders of international law…
This was my photographic visit to the square where the Sun sets.
Two major buildings
and two giant disciplines:
music and law,
seeming like two giant planets,
Jupiter and Saturn,
on the evening of November 11, 2020.
#poetry