A Monumental Neo-Romanian stairway, decorated with panels containing the lion guarding the Paradise motif, leading to a doorway provided with a large awning, specific also to the Neo-Romanian order; late 1920s house in the Cotroceni area of Bucharest (©Valentin Mandache)
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Hi,
Absolutely beautiful, I noticed that it is starting to crumble, just imagine how beautiful this would look fully restored. I agree the A/C is certainly an eyesore.
Beautiful porch – what idiot stuck those aircon boxes there???
Aircons, as you know, are ubiquitous in all Romanian towns, an important status symbol for the upstart Romanian multitude, defacing the historic landscape and a measure how idiot and arrogant most of the locals in fact are. VM