I once lived in this town. Iasi is one of the most beautiful cities in Romania, with a lot of history, and contrasts. Like any city in Romania with a history and enough age to have architecture from the past, there is also a more recent architecture which, unfortunately, is partly communist architecture focused on sad buildings, both residential and administrative.
Because I'm referring to something old, I think the images should be black and white to help evoke a past and present time through the city buildings.
The fog brings something mysterious to a town that has lost some of its former luster and a character hanging by one hand can only increase curiosity...
The City And The Fog
It's a theater character, a nineteenth-century character hanging from the roof of a strange building.
This building resembles a warehouse. It is a theatre hall, the second hall of the National Theatre in Iasi and the character hanging there is just a mascot.
The main theatre building, the back of the building, can be seen in the mist.
This building is a symbol of the city, completed in 1896. It was designed by two famous Viennese architects, Fellner and Helmer.
A walk through the fog, all the trips around the city were for me walks of knowledge and discovery. Even a necessary trip to the market was special because the market was special...
Underground market!
Back in the fog.
New And Old
I lived in an apartment on the tenth floor. We had a view over the city and beyond the edges. I loved seeing that far. Unfortunately, I had an opening to the uglier side, with the blocks and factories, generally new construction.
To clear my eyes of such architecture I chose to walk mostly through old neighborhoods, with old and unkempt houses, but through which I could imagine what it was like in the past.
When I got tired the rescue came from the tram. The city council chose to populate the streets with old-looking but functionally very good trams.
It was a very inspired choice. These trams increased the impression of a city in the past, a retro city. There is an equally spectacular modern part of the city waiting to be shown here.
This is my entry for the #monomad challenge.
