Today’s charming Chisinau, was once an architectural pearl. Time, war and indifference have eroded its splendor, but it has never lost its glamour for real.
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Iurie Å veÈ› imagined how the buildings and monuments that disappeared from the city would have looked in a modern environment.
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The archive images, combined with more recent photos of the Capital City, were published on his blog OldChisinau.
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The images depict monuments lost in time, edifices that we will never see again, but also the people of that time.
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The first cars, the carriages and the small shops on the ground floor of the edifices can also be found in the photographs.
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Let’s love our city and take care of the history that represents it! Happy anniversary, Chisinau!
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