Architecture of the Byzantine world

A luxurious neobaroque residence of a Limassol businessman Antonis Pilavakis, built in the beginning of the XX century. The mansion is said to have been inspired by the architecture of Monaco, where Antonis frequented the local casinos.

After the businessman's death, the building, too expensive for his family, began to fall into disrepair, but fortunately ended up in municipal ownership and was turned into a library. Unfortunately, the interiors have not survived to this day.

Alongside the towering wooden churches of Transylvania and the simple but solid wooden churches of Wallachia and Moldavia, Romania has many small, almost indistinguishable rural churches, usually built relatively recently.

The chapel-like church in the village of Marița Vâlcei seems to be such a church, but it is older than many stone churches in Wallachia, as it was built in the middle of the XVI century.