Yesterday I had the unique opportunity to visit another site from the series of monumental buildings in the city that I have already shown you so many times. Well, not to visit, but to look at it from the outside.
But I have decided for a while to diversify my 'architectural portfolio' in this wonderful community and show you a little different buildings, as much as I want to continue to show you from these unique communist monuments, the photos of which are piled up in my phone and are waiting for their time to be shown.
I hope they wait for that time.
And why this opportunity was unique yesterday? Well, I'll tell you then. It was really unique, as you already know how difficult it is to take pictures of something in the streets of some Bulgarian settlement. 😁
So, my choice for today is an ancient construction, a landmark I visited last summer. And I took these pictures, because it was quite unusual place - a tomb, an ancient Thracian tomb from the 4th century BC.
Yet not the age and the era make this site unique. But the fact that it was a building inside of a building.
Yes 🙂
This is an ancient tomb, a building of a tomb, placed inside of a museum building - quite unusual, isn't it?
Because it felt quite unusual and strange - to enter a building inside a building. It somehow doesn't feel right 🙃, what do you think?
Well, this construction is a replica, a model of the real tomb. You can see the construction material - it doesn't look that old. Although it is said that it is an absolutely exact copy of the real tomb.
To the left, there is a visual drawing showing what the tomb looks like and what parts it consists of - a corridor, a rectangular chamber and a round chamber (the piles of stones above are from the round chamber).
That's a painting from the corridor:
So, paintings... Paintings here, or frescoes, are exact replicas too.
And they're quite impressive, I must say.
(Fresco from the main chamber.)
Showing that talent, or just human abilities have no age. I mean, what is inside us does not change over the centuries - the ability to draw, write, make jewelry, for example, and any other manifestation of creativity.
But here we want to talk and show more architecture, right?
So, this is inside the chamber:
Already seen the paintings on the walls, I think we should not be surprised that at that time they built rectangular, round and all kinds of buildings.
I have always said that we do not reinvent the wheel at the moment, given that the Romans even used underfloor heating in their villas, and given their roads and aqueducts, which are used to this day, it may be that we are less developed than our predecessors.
(It was a bit difficult to take pictures in this limited space inside.)
I love that the restorers have tried to recreate every crack and lack of material in these rooms to give authenticity to their product. I can also imagine how much time and effort it took them.
I can't judge them for the decision they made - to seal the original tomb to preserve the real paintings in it and stop the encroachments on this site - repeatedly looted before being discovered by archaeologists.
But in this way this object has only informative value. It only gives information about what this tomb looked like. Nothing more.
Despite the authentic look of the frescoes.
The stones with which it is built, although treated, look new.
And the feeling here, inside, is not authentic. It can't be.
It's like going to an exhibition of models of famous world landmarks and then saying that you've visited them all.
Although the tomb itself with its mound are very close.
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