[NQM] Iasi, Romania

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2_Pints_Of_Rasa@reddit

Romania has the prettiest cities in the Balkans, change my mind.

The most diverse architecture after Bosnia.

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AshenriseOfficial@reddit (OP)

Bonus photo: the "Gheorghe Asachi" university library interior, still in Iasi.

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I have never been to the city, but whenever I see pictures of Iasi it feels like all of the old town landmark buildings are situated in a single street that can be walked in a few minutes. Like why are there modern buildings surrounding the entirety of the palace.

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not-sib@reddit

You're not wrong, I am from Iasi and there used to be more historic buildings before ww2 and communism. Keep in mind that it's not that big of a city (by surface), especially not the dense parts. Lots of it is sprawling suburbs.

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BisonDizzy2828@reddit

Iasi was bombed by both Allies and Germans, then the communism came which also demolished a lot of old buildings.

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belchhuggins@reddit

How is this name pronounced?

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R0m4n1a@reddit

Jaшь sort of.

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AshenriseOfficial@reddit (OP)

Yash. Usually the final "i"s in Romanian tend to be mute, and the s with the commas beneath them are "sh". Although I didn't use diacritics cause I'm too lazy to switch my keyboard everytime.

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belchhuggins@reddit

great, thanks

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Stunning_Tradition31@reddit

yeah, 5 old buildings that look good and that’s it unfortunately. the rest of the city center is full of ugly unmantained commie blocks

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ZhiveBeIarus@reddit

Beautiful, just like the rest of Romania.

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Slavic_Dusa@reddit

One positive thing about this sub is that I learned how beautiful Romania is.

Not just architecture, but nature as well.

I haven't visited yet, but I'm planning to do so. It is nice that despite decades of dictatorship, corruption, poverty, and fucked up years after it, all of this managed to survive and got rebuilt.

Growing up in Yugoslavia, I always thought of Romania as this dark and uninviting country that has nothing to offer.

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DependentUnfair3605@reddit

Interesting to find out that Yugoslavians had this perception of Romania.

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Slavic_Dusa@reddit

O yeah.

We saw fall of Ceauscescu broadcasted live on tv and then for years had people from Romania coming to sell trinkets on streets and work hardest jobs for next to nothing. They were telling stories of Securitatea and sitting in a bathtub waiting for a hot water ration to come.

And don't get me wrong, at the time in Yugoslavia, things were getting worse, and worse, but we were still much, much better than Romania.

Romania wasn't unique. The same thing happened when regimes changed in Hungary, Bulgaria, and Albania. Everyone was coming to Yugoslavia to sell stuff and do manual labor.

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