Poor Atlantes

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Moldova's and Romania's Roma (Gypsy) villages are home to some of the most hideous architecture I have ever seen. We are going to a Roma wedding in a main Roma town in Moldova soon and I hope to do a detailed report on the famous architecture of the Gypsy Hill.

This house in a small Roma village I drove past today is modest and tasteful compared to the typical palaces on the Hill:

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[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Interesting structure.  Looks like a mixture of Roman and something else.  Not sure about the something else.  Might be some Greek in there too.  Romans had the round columns Greek did square..or maybe It's the other way around.  Ha!  I get the two confused sometimes. 

Athena

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They often combine the incompatible in those houses.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I was thinking it looks like they put a gun emplacement on top of a house and then decided to turn it into a midcentury modern drive-in restaurant and then went out of business.

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Ha ha, that's more along the lines of how I feel.
None of their houses are finished (not really possible to do given their purpose) or inhabited (they live in tents or tiny trailers or houses next to these gigantic houses). I will explain why in a separate entry.

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There was a guy down the street who built a castle-like tower on the side of his house, and when he got it halfway completed he simply stopped for about five years. No windows, no siding, just bare wood. It was very odd-looking. Finally he did finish it and now sometimes I see people in there.