Like everywhere on such "Rivieras" the works of art commerce try to be up even in off-peak season.
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18th June 2012, 09:36 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
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19th June 2012, 04:50 PMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
Showing so much determination I was sure that all local beauties will pass easily over the winter to come.:D
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21st June 2012, 10:02 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
I noticed the same determination to survive at all kind of Nessebar's beauties :eek:
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22nd June 2012, 06:07 PMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
Every trip has an end.Next day I left this place with the wish for returning.
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24th June 2012, 07:15 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
The night brought a bad weather,so the road over the hills was more a nightmare than a delight.
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24th June 2012, 08:59 AMarithRe: Central European Lines
Nice sunset. :)
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26th June 2012, 07:55 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European LinesI'm glad you liked it,thanks.Quote:
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26th June 2012, 08:10 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
After the Easter I had to travel to Cluj-Napoca,a town in the middle of Transylvania.
Nowadays,here,every town aspires to be grey.I tried to look for those aspects which are against my opinion.Though this is my first impression.
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27th June 2012, 07:10 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
The aspiration of Romanians from Transylvania to be with Romanian Kingdom accomplished after WW 1 when Wilsonian principles were applied.
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29th June 2012, 06:29 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
This is the building of the theater (Cluj National Theater,now). This theater was opened in 1902.Czech Theater was in 1881,that from Budapest in1837 and Vienna Burgtheater in1741 :eek:
That tells to the visitors about the administration of this territory by its conquerors
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1st July 2012, 06:57 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
The Orthodox cathedral.
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3rd July 2012, 07:47 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
Here,in Cluj there are some monuments which remember of recent or older events.One of them is "The Shot Pillars"which tell about the dead from the December when the Communism was broken down.
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5th July 2012, 06:22 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
Another one is The Heroes Of The Nation Cross which was constructed on Cetatsuia hill("Cetatsuia" means a kind of little fortress). Its height around 33 feet and the cross weight around 60 tons.
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15th July 2012, 06:01 PMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
This wonderful palace was Hotel New York:eek: which,with its famous Cafe New York was for more then 50 years a center of social and intellectual life of this city.Now sold and abandoned.
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18th July 2012, 04:36 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
At page no.3 I told that two members of Hunyadi family ruled Hungarian Kingdom in 15th c.-John Hunyadi and his son Matthias(Matthew) Corvinus.Today nothing reminds about them in their native place,Corbi village in Arges county(in Latin corvus,i means raven at plural corvi=ravens and the similitude with Romanian corbi is easy observable). The cross which was constructed on the Stone Ravens hill is linked by the monastery which is,there, in a cave.
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19th July 2012, 08:27 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
The Church of St.Michael was first Catholic one,then Protestant and now Catholic again.Its construction begun in 14th century,being finished in 15th c.The present tower was erected in the second part of 19th c.Only in 1902 Austrian - Hungarian administration hoping,probably, to silence the conscience of Romanians, constructed the monument of Matthias Corvinus King whose Romanian roots were known.
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20th July 2012, 04:41 PMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
The artist presented us only warrior side of the Matthew.A warrior with his unsheathed sword in a horizontal position waiting to defense or to attack.
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22nd July 2012, 08:03 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
Unio Trium Nationum(The Union of the Three Nations)appeared in 1438 and was a pact between Hungarians,Germans and Szecklers against peasants' revolts.The Romanians who formed the majority were excluded.This was the legal support of the ethnic "contrast" which never finished.
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23rd July 2012, 06:19 AMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
Transilvanian Memorandum was a petition sent by the Romanian leaders to the Emperor Franz Joseph asking for equal rights with Hungarians and against Magyarisation.After that, memorandum signers were sentenced to the prison in 1894.After 100 years,here,a Memorandum Signers Monument was built.
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26th July 2012, 03:50 PMRadu Dinu CordeanuRe: Central European Lines
Walking on the street I passed beautiful houses,true architectural monuments.This one seems to have a future which sound well,a bank being involved.
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