Hello, friends. Glad to meet you again. I am in a hurry with a new portion of interesting material.
Today we will focus on the simple Italian city of Trieste. Its history is quite rich since ancient times. But it got its greatest prosperity during the times of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, serving as its gateway to the Adriatic Sea and, accordingly, to the Mediterranean basin. Now he is practically on the outskirts of the European Union. But there are a lot of monuments of that era left in it. Well, as you probably guessed, there are also near-technical monuments. It was especially pleasant to watch it all live. As it turned out, where the Great Patriotic War and the Communists have not visited, all the technical devices of architecture are almost in perfect condition, except that they have cut off individual parts very thoughtfully and to a minimum. But this basically, of course, did not work without complete demolition. And to my great surprise, I discovered there thatthat all technical devices one to one were repeated everywhere practically unchanged, despite the seemingly visual difference in the architecture of the West and the East. For example, here:
The structure is called the Fountain in the Great Barracks Square, it performed a purely unitary function - supplying fresh water to soldiers' barracks and stables. The trick is that the barracks were located practically on the Adriatic coast, the water in which is very salty (I bathed and tried it, despite + 8C in the air). This structure is no longer there, it was demolished in 1923 in connection with the adoption of a new urban planning plan (* - in Europe it was called that, when in the USSR it was called the fight against opium for the people - author). Actually, look at some of the Bakhchisarai fountains in Crimea and feel the difference. Surprisingly, everything is the same, despite the difference in cultures - a certain device extracts fresh water from the ground (where rocky soil, by the way), and gradually fills the bowls under the drain. And this device looks very similar in all countries. Only on some there is a cross, on some crescent (I will write on this topic separately somehow), etc. Very strange. And the great barracks themselves are a little surprising, or rather their administrative building. Since it is now the customs zone of the port, I was not able to take a picture, I transfer the view from Google, but this will be enough for knowledgeable people.
God, what a horror, a pipe from the boiler room, with banding rings and soot, was adapted to the antique masterpiece, as expected. The pedestal, however, slightly resembles that of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Moscow, only the color may be different. Oddly enough, there he is also adapted for them, but in reality they were used in completely different devices. Let's go further. The barracks were on the shore, and approached the very center of the city. Logically, in the old days, the troops should always be at the side of the rulers, and they all lived there together as in one village (everyone knows about each other, they changed something with each other and owe each other something). And what happened at the end of the barracks?
A very interesting building. Meet an ordinary insurance company.
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Probably, the thought immediately suggests itself that about 3/4 of its current actual length was attached to the back of this house, moreover, it was added quite recently. Well, with the top, something has changed.
Look outlined in proportion to the old photo. It looks like size mattered to some extent in the old photo. Even, probably, it was of great importance, not at all according to Freud-)). Probably wondering how such structures were built? Let's look at one more from old Trieste.
Once in the childhood of the 90-shaggy, building a house from silicate bricks produced by the Lipensky silicate plant (the champion in the budget at the time), looking at this picture, I can confidently say that the bricks of the structure from the photo, if you can call them that, were cast by highly qualified specialists (but not cut, that's for sure). If the three of us with pregnant women were able to assemble such an antique structure, then with serious guys they probably assembled something more serious, for example:
This is also a construction from Trieste, only very peculiar. Each bell sings about something of its own. Gives out some kind of long thing sticking out from the balconies. Oddly enough, there are a lot of such things sticking out from places on the opposite side of the planet, but at the same angle. Maybe the inhabitants are more temperamental there? Hardly.
There are a lot of such things that are not at all according to Freud, and in Trieste, only for some reason they hung flags on them. Probably a tribute to tradition. Or maybe flagpoles first appeared in the tradition, and then flags. But history is silent about this. What a mysterious city of Trieste … But let's go further.
This is another fountain from Trieste that no longer exists. Looking at the photo, you might again think that some force of some device in the attic of the room is drawing water into the fountain. But something design very much resembles a music kiosk from here (I will also write about this kiosk sometime separately).
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