TRIANON PALACE IN FLORESTI-PRAHOVA - Castelul din Floresti

Sufletul Castelului Cantacuzino inca bantuie orasul.
Zidurile puternice apara fantomele fantanilor arteziene, salilor de bal, saloanelor - niciodata folosite .
Inceput pe la 1911 de Grigore Gheorghe Cantacuzino, castelul pare bantuit de un blestem .
Un proiect ambitios , o imitatie a vestitului Trianon, de la Versailles, Castelul zace azi parasit dupa ce cutremurul din ’40 , prapadul lasat in urma de rusi in al doilea razboi mondial, colectivizarea si furturile n-au reusit sa-l distruga complet.

Obiect de patrimoniu national (aflat in evidentele si grija autoritatilor statului) – ‘Micul Trianon’ isi ofera ranile cu o solemna demnitate , vizitatorilor rataciti in zona. Fatada - inca intacta prin nu stiu ce miracol – ascunde un dezastru interior. Ziduri prabusite, ornamente de piatra atarnate de fierul beton in ancadramente crapate, caramizi dislocate, gunoaie …
Mai exista speranta?
mai multe informatii despre castel : Metropotam , Teoalida


In the village of Floresti, in Prahova county, some 80 km north- east of Bucharest, the Cantacuzino family, a family with a long-standing history in Romania, built a palace called Le Petit Trianon-the Little Trianon. Conservative politician Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, nicknamed The Nabob for his immense fortune, started building the mansion in 1911, at the request of his niece, Alice. It was a palace like none before in Romania. As requested by Alice Cantacuzino, the mansion had 150 bedrooms, seven ballrooms, and a tree park of 150 hectares, with rare trees, aqueducts, hunting grounds, golf courses, and horse riding grounds. However, the mansion was never finished. In 1913, Gheorghe Cantacuzino died without seeing the palace to completion. In 1914, French, Italian and Greek builders had finished the exterior and were starting on the roof. The walls were built of thick brick coated with travertine. The objects to decorate the interior were stored in the basement, and were never set up. They were stolen along the years. After the death of the magnate, no one took care of the castle, and no one ever lived in it. Princess Alice left to live abroad, and her uncle’s gift, the Princess’ Palace, as it was known, went into oblivion, and still lies forgotten.


The Little Trianon in Floresti is nowadays gutted. The roof and interior compartments are no longer, but the outer walls still stand, almost intact. The interior walls are ruined, and the bricks that escaped the thieves are scattered on the floor. The effects of time, disrepair and vandalism were disastrous.
 It all started in world war one, when German troops stripped the roof of its copper sheet, took out the terracotta stoves, and furnishings.
Devastating events were to follow. In 1944, the Red Army took a few Ionic columns from the building. Then locals started breaking off the exterior Baroque, neo-Classical, and Renaissance decorations, decorating their stables and pigpens. As the stone was stolen, the building lost support. The earthquake of 1977 brought down the chimneys and some of the interior walls. During the communist regime, the building hosted a state farm, a dog training school, a military barracks.
The drama of Little Trianon is that is lies forgotten, in spite of promises made by the authorities. With a name like Trianon, it should have a better fate.


source : RRI

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House with no Door

Photo in Bucharest : Lipscani, Buzesti, Gabroveni

There's a house with no door and I'm living there

at nights it gets so cold and the days are hard to bear inside.

There's a house with no roof, so the rain creeps in,

falling through my head as I try to think out time.

I don't know you, you say you know me, that may be so,

there's so much that I am unsure of ...

You call my name, but it sounds unreal, I forget how I feel,

my body's rejecting the cure.

There's a house with no bell, but then nobody calls;

I sometimes find it hard to tell if any are alive at all outside.

There's a house with no sound; yes, it's quiet there ...

there's not much point in words if there's no-one to share in time.

I've learned my lines, I know them so well, I am ready to tell

whoever will finally come in

Of the line in my mind that's cold in the night, it doesn't seem right

when there's that little dark figure running ...

There's a house with no door and there's no living there:

one day it became a wall ... well I didn't really care at the time.

There's a house with no light, all the windows are sealed,

overtaxed and strained NOW NOTHING IS REVEALED BUT TIME

Won't somebody help me ......?

Van Der Graaf Generator - House With No Door lyrics



Nu-i nimic, e-n regulă,
mai aşteptăm două sute de ani,
ce-o să fie, un biet accident istoric,
o socoteală matematică greşită,
suntem în Estul Europei, nu uitaţi.
Ruşii, da, Maghiarii, da,
Polonezii, da, Bulgarii, da,
noi, nu, noi nu, noi nu progresăm,
că se interpretează,
când nu voiau vecinii,
noi nu puteam, n-aveam voie,
când vor vecinii,
nu vrem noi, n-avem nevoie,
asta e, aşa suntem noi, ai dracului,
daţi în Paşte, asta e, daţi în Paşte,
nu-i nimic, e-n regulă,
mai vedem noi, mai vedem,
aveţi răbdare, nu bateţi din picioare,
nu vă pripiţi
noi regresăm cu plăcere,
noi regresăm cu talent,
noi nu ne luăm după nimeni
decât când regresează.
Două sute de ani! Atât!
Aveţi răbdare, nu chemaţi salvarea,
nu exageraţi, nu cricniţi,
regresaţi cu noi!

Înapoi, marş!

Adrian Păunescu Regresăm
sursa : romanian voice

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - House With No Door (1970)





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