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[topum]

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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[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

Wow! I love this building! :-D

[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

[topum.livejournal.com]

And I really didn't, ha ha.

[topum.livejournal.com]

They often combine the incompatible in those houses.

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

That house is awesome.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, just you wait for the full report from the Hill.
I am glad that Roma palaces are finding their fans because I really do not like them ).

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting and odd combination. I'm definitely looking forward to your detailed report!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Many houses look like they saw a Chinese pagoda, liked it and started building their house to look like one. Then half way through they saw Capitol and said "Hey, that roof is cool, lets just put it on top of our pagoda house to finish it off" and they do.

[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.

[topum.livejournal.com]

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.

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

To each their own I guess.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I am glad that these houses are finding their fans because I felt really sorry for them. Quite a number of my LJ friends seem to like them.

[sagittariusbun.livejournal.com]

I love the architecture of this building.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

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.

[gneu.livejournal.com]

It looks like a cross between a lighthouse and a sanitarium.

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

lol that sounds like exactly what happened here

[topum.livejournal.com]

This is actually quite understated and not that eclectic by Roma standards. Some of the palaces on the Hill are mind boggling.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, indeed.