Tuesday 17 March 2020

Great Buildings of the World Unite

The Ilinden Memorial in North Macedonia- Honouring the uprising of 1903

Inside the Memorial in Krusevo
The town is officially bilingual - Macedonian and Aromanian.
 This was an abortive attempt at removing an imperial dictator.  Interesting to compare this with uprisings in the British Empire.  The Bulgarians said the Ilinden uprising was too soon, and happened without their, or Russian consent.  The retribution that followed was worse than the war.

What about Bulgaria?
 Buzludzha, said to the the site of a heroic defeat in 1868


Now sadly derelict


And Paris - The French Communist Party Headquarters designed by Oscar Niemeyer



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