parallel lines

This image reminds me of a Russian film I saw recently (last year), A Railway Station For Two. Of course, I have seen it before,probably a very long time ago,
but seeing it again, I liked it even more.
I’m looking at this photograph and I see Vera and Platon running like mad in the cold, through the snow, trying to get on time to the Prison Call .Who wants to see it, it’s on youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s64j20265Qw (part I) & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqPRQggBIWU&feature=related (part II)

town centre

I pass this street everyday, on my way to and back from work, and its one of my favourite streets in the centre town. 11th of decembre 1989 Street. Such a long name for a small street

Théâtre de varietés

Towards the end of the 18th century and begginning of the next, the sons of great aristrocrats of the times, went to study abroad (in places like France or Italy) and met with this artistic way of entertainment called Theatre.
Of course, fashion comes ’round in Moldova and so, the first to act in Iaşi is Gheorghe Asachi in the first romanian-translated act “Mirtil şi Hloe”. The act is held in the house of the nobleman Ghica.
The National Theatre of Iasi came to be around 1840 and is directed by Costache Negruzzi, Vasile Alecsandri and Mihail Kogălniceanu, up untill 1846 when the theatre got moved to the greater theatre hall in Copou, in the house of the great nobleman, Mihail Sturza.
During the years 1877-1878, the experiences of the theatrical halls in Iaşi, Bucureşti and Craiova, makes possible their transformation into Dramatric Societies.
On the 17th -18th of febraury 1888, there is a fire that destroys the Theatre Hall in Copou, which takes the National Theatre back on the “stage”. It becomes the Vasile Alecsandri National Theatre in 1956, because of the great poet and theatrical man that he was.

big wheels

Liked this parked in front of the hotel. I wouldn’t ride it, but i like it.
And i think that people that have the guts to do it, must be very brave.

the great palace…

It’s our very own pièce de résistance, the Great Cultural Palace. Part of it was built on top of the old ruins of the mediaeval princely courts and also on top of the foundation of the previous palace, dated during the kingdom of Prince Alexandru Moruzi .
Legend has it that the palace has 365 rooms, one for each year of the year.This legend dates since the demolition of it in 1904.
Ioan D. Berindei is the famous Romanian architect who rebuild it, between the 1906 and 1925.
Since its inauguration, in ’25 till 1955, it served as the Palace of Justice, when its purpose changed to becoming a museum, in a great moldavian complex.

The museum is currently closed for restauration, but will be open, hopefully, next year.