Urbanities,
Vol. 3
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No 1
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May 2013
© 2013
Urbanities
Gypsy/Roma palaces imitate Romanian bourgeois houses from the turn of the 20
th
century
like they were built in Bucharest or in other big cities of the country.
Image 2: Roma Palace
à la française
near Caransebes. Phototocredit F. Ruegg
However, according to Delepine, a French geographer who was able to interview the architect
who drew the palaces of Timisoara, the latter copied the Royal Palace of Budapest, the
Madeleine Church in Paris as well as Viennese and Bucharest models (Delepine 2007: 113).
One can identify other architectural styles:
An ‘oriental’ style particularly characterised by the bulbous church-like roof with
also neo-oriental furniture and decoration as observed in Soroca;
Image 3: Roma Palace in Soroca (R. Moldova). Photocredit F. Ruegg
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