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[Fallen]

Poze excelente mihai.
Din pacate, ma cuprinde tristetea cand fac o comparatie intre pozele de azi ale Galatiului si cele de epoca.


Grrr, i hate the commies, they've destroyed our country

[mihai_alex]

Nu-s destule poze din Galatiul de azi cat sa-ti faci o parere exacta despre cum arata,multe care ar trebui aratate lipsesc, dar voi incerca sa pun in viitor cat mai multe poze.

[Le Clerk]

Mihai, multumim de pozele postate pana acum si chiar te rog sa mai postezi si altele daca mai ai. Tu ai o resursa documentaristica fantastica despre Galati care nu cred ca poate fi gasita in alta parte a www

PS: Ai cumva o harta veche a orasului pe care sa o postezi aici, sa vedem unde in orasul actual erau toate acele stradute cochete?

[mihai_alex]

Am o harta de pe la sf sec XIX dar nu intelegi mare lucru din ea,insa pot sa-si spun ca strazile au ramas cam la fel,doar ca Domneasca s-a scurtat de la centru cativa zeci de metri,si posibil ca strada Portului sa se fi mutat.

Am mai gasit cateva poze:
Galati 1825:
Sa stiti ca aici nu e Dunarea,e doar un golfulet care astazi nu mai exista,si ajungea cam pana la Parcul lui Durbaca pt cei care stiu de el, Dunarea era ceva mai mare decat acum.


1867:


Alti ani…

[Le Clerk]

Thank you Mihai for the incredible and amazing photos so far (we should switch into EN cause a lot of people read the Photo section of the Romanian forum). It is so sad to see that a very prosperous and western looking city 60 years ago was distroyed by war and then by communists!!!) Galati was truly western looking city and had a magnificent architecture and a very strong economy in the interbellum period! You cannot see today so many passenger ships as you can see in those pictures. And all those beautiful houses and streets that remind you of the mediteranean coasts, they're all gone, distroyed.

The city, as Geno said, will never recover from the distruction of its looks but also from the destruction of the people and generations who built all that. So sad, very sad.

PS: I think that on top of the rubble of all those streets and quarters, the communists built all those blocks of flats that you can see in this picture now:

[mihai_alex]

Yes Le Clerk,that is were a part of the cities centre used to be.

This is a map of the actual city,and i drew it's limits as they were 70 years ago.
I also delimited the part which was destroyed(95%) Galati's hart and centre,in which many of those beatifull streets, buildings used to stand.


The red dot marks the "Costache Negri piata"

[joce23]

Mihai_Alex, your last pics are absolutely amazing !

* It is so sad to see how the communists destroyed such a jewel.

[mihai_alex]

Just a statistic...

[mihai_alex]

After WW2 the reconstruction of the town ,economicly and urbanisticly was done slowly,on a long period of time because Romania was due to pay a huge war debt to Russia, imposed by the soviets.
Internal market and trade fell dramiticly because of the difficult conditions in which the port and railway worked, but also because foreing and local merchants left being threatened by communism.
The city revitalization will take place crossing many steps, the first one being the construction of a giant steel plant ,beginning from 1962.The shipyard despite being of world class construction technics was left on second spot.
The growing demographics ( Galati’s population grew in just 20 years from 95 thousand (1956)to 240 thousand, mainly because of migration,people all around the country came because they were offered jobs and homes) had a big impact on urban construction, which had a very fast progress,and was made in total disharmony with local architecture.

I’ll present to you now some pictures from that period:

After the war:


Communism:
Recognize the statue?













Galati Skyline:



















1.5 km viaduct between the city and the steel plant.





Restaurant ship “Libertatea”(Freedom)


“Dunarea” Stadium in 1960,as you can see in the backround there were only fields and a few houses back then, now it’s the most populated area in the town:

[mihai_alex]

Shots taken from the TV tower(150m) at over 100 meters:

[mihai_alex]

The tower constructed on the banks of the Danube has at the 100 meter point a restaurant called Perla Dunarii(The Danube Perl).

You can also find a pole for it here :
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=745972

[mihai_alex]

1 more

[mihai_alex]

The old:

[mihai_alex]

Sa va mai "plictisesc" cu cateva poze cu turnul de televizune

[mihai_alex]

The botanical garden, 3rd largest in the country, the building is the planetarium and the aquarium.
Also there are lots of green houses with many species of plants.
You can also find videos here : http://www.trilulilu.ro/silviaalex/7a753bc092d9be

[Le Clerk]

A busy day:



Cathedral:



The TV tower by night:



All Flickr.

[mihai_alex]

Aia cu turnul am pus-o si eu mai sus,iar cladirea din "busy day" are alta fatada,si nu mai sunt reclamle alea pe sus
As avea destule poze sa pun,dar am o lene...

[Bada]

Some other pictures of the Botanical Garden in Galati ("stolen" pictures).
And some more info:
The plans for the Botanical Garden in Galati date back to the 70's but they only started building and arranging the whole thing in the first half of the 90's. It has a surface of 18 ha (the one in Cluj has 14 ha, the one in Jibou 24 and the one in Iasi 100 ha, or so I've heard).
It is located near the Danube river bank, very close to the ferry(Trecere bac) and the Faleza so if you take a walk starting from the Tiglina entrance you come out at the end close to the faleza, a very nice looooooooooooooong walk. As you may notice in these pictures the end near the Faleza is right on the edge og Tiglina valley(rapa Tiglinei) which used to be a golf on the Danube, the one Alex was talking about 1 or 2 pages back .
The Botanical Garden is also home to the Planetarium and the Museum of Natural Sciences. The main building is supposed to be extended with some green houses(the skeletons on the right) since the current green houses are too small and improvised anyway.
There is still a lot of landscaping left to do, but this is mainly due to the fact that funding isn't that great and especially because the garden is still very young as compared to the ones in Bucharest, Cluj or Iasi.
In spite of that it's a nice oasis worth visiting. The entrance fees are 4,5 ron for adults and 1,5 ron for students, plus 15 ron for taking pictures(I took outdoor pictures without paying but nobody saw me).
My personal recommendation is that, if you pass through any Romanian city with a botanical garden, VISIT IT!
P.s. lemon beer is not beer, it's juice

[Bada]

Some pictures of my own









This is the way we...walk down to the "japanese garden"

[Bada]

Pictures of the "japanese garden" in the Botanical Garden. The pond is smaller than the one in Cluj and it doesn't have that wooden construction from which the stupid national team football players threw rocks at the stupid journalists but it's still a very nice place to visit. One of my favourite.