Bucharest is a city where it’s wise to look up after the “Caution, plaster is falling” warnings to avoid the painful plaster of Little Paris.

The Old Center, the most significant place with a red dot on the seismic map of the city, needs increased vigilance. Passage Macca-Villacrosse, the emblem of Little Paris, a work of architecture from the Beaux-Arts period, is in a state of obvious disrepair. And we are talking about a unique historical monument.

Passage Macca-Villacrosse is very reminiscent of Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan, one of the oldest commercial spaces in Italy, a place with the most expensive exclusive stores of major fashion designers.

Although they are almost the same age (the passage in Milan was built between 1865-1877, and the passage in Bucharest was inaugurated in 1891), the passage in Italy is as new, amazing and flourishing, and our owners have completely forgotten about it. and administration. Through the colored glass dome, sometimes rain, sometimes snow, stucco ornaments are torn off, and the monumental portal at the entrance from Evgeniyu Karada Street, decorated with caryatids and atlanteans, withers from year to year.

About the glory and decline of the symbol, read in full at B365.ro

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