Middle Europe

Istanbul

2009 Balkans

  Belgrade   Bucharest   Sofia

Belgrade

Tito in the snow

"House of Flowers" Tito's winter garden and then grave.

Tito's grave

Tito Museum: Relay batons From relay runs on Tito's birthdays.

Strange museum mosaic... Partisans and Peasants?

Tesla Museum

Tesla's Ashes

Sveti Marko church (1940)

"Russian Church"

Belgrade Cathedral (20th c.)

Kalmegadan Fortress: Stamboul Gate

Kalmegadan Fortress

Military Museum: Part of F117 Stealth fighter Shot down on March 1989

Military Museum: 1989

NATO bomb casing "Under warranty until 2004"

Kalmegadan: to New Belgrade

Kalmegadan: The Mighty Danube

Kalmegadan Walls

Kalmegadan Gate On Northern (Danube) side.

Kalmegadan Tower

Sveta Sava cathedral (new) "The largest Orthodox church in the world."

Seta Sava dome

Sveta Sava interior

Giant Apartment Blocks

Bucharest

Ersatz Starbucks

New St George Church (1699)

Princely Court Church (rebuilt 1934)

Vlad Tepes

Patriarchal Cathedral

Patriarchal Cathedral Interior

Patriarchal Palace (?)

Ceaucescu's gigantic "Palace of Parliament"

D�mbovita River

National History Museum: 1989

Peasant Museum: Basement Stalin

Peasant Museum: Basement

Commemoration of 1989? A photographer is snapping viewers from through the bullet hole.

University Square Monument Ten Stone Crosses

Rebirth Memorial "The Potato of the Revolution"

"Shattered man" monument

Central Committee Building

Ceaucescu's Last Balcony

Cretelescu Church (1722)

Cretelescu Church (1722)

Piata Romana

She-Wolf in Bucharest "SPQR"

South Romania

South Romania

Mighty Danube (Romania-Bulgaria)

North Bulgaria

North Bulgaria

Sofia

Alexander II (the Tsar Liberator) Who liberated Bulgaria from Ottoman rule.

Enormous Alexander Nevsky Cathedral

Alexander Nevsky entrance

Sveta Sophia Church Much rebuilt, some 4th c. sub-floor mosaics

St Nikolai (1913)

St Petka Samajuska church (11th c. ++)

Sofia Synagogue

Sofia Synagogue

Church of St George (4th c., with many rebuilds)

Church of St George

National History Museum 4th c. b.c. gold hoard

Soviet Helicopter, History Museum

Hills behind History Museum

Classsic Soviet-era apartment block

Central Bulgaria

Central Bulgaria

Middle Europe

Istanbul