Odessa is on the shore of the Black Sea. The story says that many years ago when Odessa was first being built up that the town gave land to anyone who would build of building of "interest". So many of the buildings have fantastic architecture. Unfortunately that was many years ago, and so we saw many building literally falling apart. We were also able to discern some of the short cuts that were taken. For example one building that we saw had dowels, 2x4's and paper to build up the stone looking edifice and then they put mortar on top. Makes me think a bit of the facades that were famous through out the west in the United States. The picture above is actually a cathedral.
This is the train station. One might think it was just a judicious use of an old building, but rather it was designed like this and it's original purpose was as a train station. I was amazed by how many statues, columns, pilasters, etc there were in these buildings.
No idea what this building is for, but I loved the color of it! Even in this picture you just don't get how strong and beautiful the color of green was. Amazing architectural decorations!
This is the side of the Opera house, the front is below. Now one expects an opera house or cathedral to be this decorated. You should see the inside, statues everywhere. It actually made it difficult to get to our seats because a lot of people were posing on the stairs, etc to get pictures of this amazing place. I guess I was tired of the crowd because I did not take a picture of the stairs or hallway. Once we got in to our seats I did take a few pictures which I will show in the next post.
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