We did a speed walk. I'm always late and on the run. If I have time to notice what is around me and if I have time to take a few pictures it means it was still a walk.
Now as I write I don't know why I was rushing, we weren't supposed to arrive at a certain time somewhere. We had planned to visit a small fair of traditional products and I think I was rushing because my wife was walking fast and I was trying to keep up with her. Even so, I managed to take some photos and that's what I'm doing now, I try to apologize for the quality of the photos, for the poor framing of many of them. I blame these mistakes on haste and I hope that my pictures will make you get to know a small place in Bucharest, Romania. The city where I live.
The short distance between where the bus dropped me off and the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, where the fair is, allowed me to see two buildings that caught my attention. One is an abandoned hospital and the other is one of the tallest in the city.
Here again, is a contrast. The tall building is built in recent years and impresses, in our city, by its height. Because Bucharest is the most seismically threatened city in Europe and because of this no buildings taller than 15-20 floors have been built so far.
Surrounding this block are small buildings over a hundred years old, remnants of an old part of the city. Old houses are being demolished to make way for new housing. Traces of a former house can be seen on the wall.
The iron and glass building looks like a mountain peak above the other surrounding buildings.
I find it hard to have a firm opinion about this building, I am torn between the fact that there is a need in this town for modernization and spectacular works but on the other hand, I am sorry that it is located close to beautiful old houses. It seems to crush them, visually, because of its size.
What intrigued me most is the abandoned hospital building. I have seen the building many times from my car and from a distance but now I could get closer.
The hospital is called Filantropia and is the third oldest in the city. Its construction started in 1813 and then was completed with more buildings in the last century. The original name of the hospital was Hospital of the Love of People and was established to treat and care, free of charge, for the sick regardless of religion, nationality, or gender. Impressive!
In the last century, it was the largest cancer hospital in Romania, but because at some point it was no longer able to serve all the patients, more and more, other hospitals were built and it was abandoned.
I can't believe that such a building is left to decay, in the middle of the city, a few hundred meters from the Romanian Government building.
I think it should have been partially converted into a museum and the rest could have been refurbished and turned into exhibition and performance spaces. We are in the city center!
Finally, maybe they will do something. This place is also dangerous for those who live nearby.
These buildings, next to each other, I thought worth mentioning from my walk. The extreme contrast between them, one modern and the other in ruins. Then, I just crossed the boulevard and arrived at the fair so desired by my wife.
The walk, the first part, ends at the fair. What happened inside I'll tell you about on Friday, when it's #marketfriday by 
Glad I could put a flower at the end.
For #WednesdayWalk by 
HiveBloPoMo Day 3
