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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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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.