Which Balkan country has the ugliest architecture?

[Archduke]

It must be either Bulgaria or Albania unfortunately. Sofia is the ugliest looking capital from all Balkan capitals (Tirana is uglier as far as Ive heard, but I have never been there).

[Szegedist]

FYROM with their fake "macedonian" renaissance.

[Archduke]

FYROM with their fake "macedonian" renaissance.

I must admit that even those silly ancient buildings are far better looking than the commie blocks which are all over Sofia (or any other Balkan capital)

http://stroitelstvo.info/shimg/zx500_2024675.jpg

[Agron]

FYROM with their fake "macedonian" renaissance.
It looks better than the rest of the city actually... Skopje is truly an ugly city! The albanian part looks quite good though.

[ALSh]

I must admit that even those silly ancient buildings are far better looking than the commie blocks which are all over Sofia (or any other Balkan capital)

http://stroitelstvo.info/shimg/zx500_2024675.jpg

Communist flat blocks are ugly, but it seems in Sofia are even worse ( based in the pic u posted).

[KrashNick]

It looks better than the rest of the city actually... Skopje is truly an ugly city! The albanian part looks quite good though.

Actually the albanian part looks more uglier which i don't blame Albanians tho .

[Agron]

There are some nice cities here and there, but generally I think that all Balkan countries (except maybe the northern parts and Greece) have ugly architecture. There isn't one that's uglier than the other, they are all shitty looking..

[KrashNick]

I thought the same about Tirana until i visited it and its not really that ugly as some people think , i personally like Tirana .

[Agron]

Actually the albanian part looks more uglier which i don't blame to Albanians tho .

Well except maybe the center, the macedonian parts looks very ugly, since majority of Macedonians live in those commie blocks (ugliest things ever built) and albanians in houses.

[Archduke]

Well except maybe the center, the macedonian parts looks very ugly, since majority of Macedonians live in those commie blocks (ugliest things ever built) and albanians in houses.

According to my great grandmother all Albanian houses had very big walls. A friend of mine from MAcedonia told me that its not much different even today.

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg193/scaled.php?server=193&filename=dsc01986o.jpg&res=landing

http://thevelvetrocket.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/albanian-village.jpg

[ALSh]

I like how the new neighborhoods are being constructed in Kosovo. Here is one for example:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1450696_592258457496835_1414345494_n.jpg
https://scontent-b-ams.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/1471392_592255447497136_34360883_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1426243_592255244163823_1257687427_n.jpg
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/465804_502349073154441_1501252962_o.jpg

[KrashNick]

I like how the new neighborhoods are being constructed in Kosovo. Here is one for example:


Yeah but they cost to much .

[Geni]

Bravo keshtu te ndertohet jo si ne Shqiperi qe duket si Bangladesh ,pallatet 2 metra larg njeri -tjetrit,bravo Kosovareve..

[Agron]

According to my great grandmother all Albanian houses had very big walls. A friend of mine from MAcedonia told me that its not much different even today.

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg193/scaled.php?server=193&filename=dsc01986o.jpg&res=landing

http://thevelvetrocket.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/albanian-village.jpg

Is your great grand mother from mk?

Well it's true that we build big walls around our houses (not all but the majority does), but it doesn't have to look that bad as in your pics, some build stone walls which can look quite good imo.

[Agron]

I like how the new neighborhoods are being constructed in Kosovo. Here is one for example:
...

Shum mirë po dukën, sikur me qënë dikund në gjermani.
Ku jan kto ndërtesa? Në Prishtinë?

[ALSh]

Shum mirë po dukën, sikur me qënë dikund në gjermani.
Ku jan kto ndërtesa? Në Prishtinë?

Po ne Prishtine, por nuk e di me saktesi vendin sepse nuk jam nga Kosova.

[Agron]

@ Archduke I also wanted to say that these walls are mainly built in rural areas, you won't find many of such walls in cities for example.

[La Misse]

Greece has bad architecture, especially Athens with all these old buildins close to each other, and i ask myself how are they gonna destroy them one day?
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/athens-cement-jungle-greece-3572741.jpg

Tirana looks nive to me, my dad last visited that and told me that it's way better than Athens. But has to see myself.

Macedonia, looooooooool i saw some new buiding in Macedonia, and why are they so pathetic? Ancient Macedonians wannabe :lol:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111003025608-skopje-2014-arch-horizontal-gallery.jpg

they live in a lie.

[Agron]

Macedonia, looooooooool i saw some new buiding in Macedonia, and why are they so pathetic? Ancient Macedonians wannabe :lol:
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111003025608-skopje-2014-arch-horizontal-gallery.jpg

they live in a lie.

You're right that's pathetic, but you have to admit that they look quite good, compared to the rest of the city, it's like another world.

[ALSh]

Greece has bad architecture, especially Athens with all these old buildins close to each other, and i ask myself how are they gonna destroy them one day?
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/athens-cement-jungle-greece-3572741.jpg



I would never imagine this is in Athens :scared:

[ALSh]

Yeah but they cost to much .

Propably the returned emigrants buy them.

[Archduke]

Greece has bad architecture, especially Athens with all these old buildins close to each other, and i ask myself how are they gonna destroy them one day?
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/athens-cement-jungle-greece-3572741.jpg

It is normal every city to have shitty places, especially Athens which has 3 million population.

Those pics of Tirana are way more off than the pic of Athens you posted...and Tirana is only 600k

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Tirana_-_Colourful_houses_at_Lana.jpg

http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/650/tirana16.jpg

[La Misse]

You're right that's pathetic, but you have to admit that they look quite good, compared to the rest of the city, it's like another world.

I prefer to live the reality, not a lie. But yes, the buildins are nice but look at this:

Paris, France
http://es.blog.hotelnights.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/paris-arc-triomf.jpg

Skopje, Macedonia
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111003025608-skopje-2014-arch-horizontal-gallery.jpg

:lol: :lol: what's next?

[miscellaneous]

Unfortunately to fix our city we'd need an atomic bomb and then rebuild everything off the ground.

[La Misse]

It is normal every city to have shitty places, especially Athens which has 3 million population.

Those pics of Tirana are way more off than the pic of Athens you posted...and Tirana is only 600k
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not all tirana is like that, and all athens is like the photo i posted. I know better than you cuz i live there. So shut up don't teach me

[Minesweeper]

Our leaders and intellectuals in 19. and early 20. century did a lot to de-ottomanise all aspects of our society. As a result, we know have typical European styles of that time with out own traditional elements in all major cities. At least the old town cores.

[Archduke]

not all tirana is like that, and all athens is like the photo i posted. I know better than you cuz i live there. So shut up don't teach me

Athens still looks better than Tirana to me.


Unfortunately to fix our city we'd need an atomic bomb and then rebuild everything off the ground.

Only Sofia and several other big cities are very bad. Burgas for example is not that depressing.

But there is no doubt that every city/town/village is Soviet influenced which is super ugly.

[Agron]

I prefer to live the reality, not a lie. But yes, the buildins are nice but look at this:

Paris, France
http://es.blog.hotelnights.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/paris-arc-triomf.jpg

Skopje, Macedonia
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/111003025608-skopje-2014-arch-horizontal-gallery.jpg

:lol: :lol: what's next?


haha të kuptoj, por çfar të bëjn ato, është gjyna nuk kanë histori :p

[La Misse]

Our leaders and intellectuals in 19. and early 20. century did a lot in the process of de-ottomanisation. As a result, we know have typical European styles of that time with out own traditional elements in all major cities. At least the old town cores.

Sometimes i think that if Ottomans didn't occupied us, Balkan countries would be like Germany or Sweden.

[Coldy Valdir]

New Belgrade, Serbia


http://i.imgur.com/wkDGpoL.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/L8ieDPy.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/FSP7r2C.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/DJNzSSi.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/Sp9ebV6.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/YPceAFE.jpg

[miscellaneous]

Athens still looks better than Tirana to me.



Only Sofia and several other big cities are very bad. Burgas for example is not that depressing.

But there is no doubt that every city/town/village is Soviet influenced which is super ugly.

I know buddy.

[Coldy Valdir]

New Zagreb, Croatia


http://i.imgur.com/qVm2UCg.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/DtSuxcU.jpg

[Rudel]

Greece has bad architecture, especially Athens with all these old buildins close to each other, and i ask myself how are they gonna destroy them one day?
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/athens-cement-jungle-greece-3572741.jpg

Dayum, it looks like a shitty neighborhood of Marseille.


There are some nice cities here and there, but generally I think that all Balkan countries (except maybe the northern parts and Greece) have ugly architecture.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Dubrovnik_crop.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Dubrovnik8.jpg

(One might object that Dubrovnik was built at the time of the Republic of Raguse by people speaking Dalmatian, a Romance language, not by Slavs.)

[Coldy Valdir]

New Skopje, Macedonia


http://i.imgur.com/zhpsCFS.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/v5PcirG.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/uKZw6wL.jpg

[La Misse]

Athens still looks better than Tirana to me.


Then you have to visit both before talking , go visit the center of Athens and then came back to the topix. The pictures that u posted are ''Art'' of Edi Rama(bitch) who pretented to take care of Tirana and all he did was painting some old buildings. Can't believe that how he controle the whole country :picard1: I think when i'll go for Christmas in Albania they gonna arest me for what i say about him on net. :lol:

I think Kosovo have the best architecture becouse they are building the country now, and most Albanians from Kosovo lives in German, USA, Switzerland, Sweden so when they came back they will build what they saw there. :D

[Coldy Valdir]

New Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina


http://i.imgur.com/rNtYIcs.jpg

[Coldy Valdir]

New Athens skyline, Greece

http://i.imgur.com/Q0ki46o.jpg

[La Misse]

haha të kuptoj, por çfar të bëjn ato, është gjyna nuk kanë histori :p

Ca te bejne? Tna leshojne gjysmen e maqedonis sepse na takon neve :p ate te bejne.

[La Misse]

New Athens skyline, Greece

http://i.imgur.com/Q0ki46o.jpg

this! Archduke do you see??!

[Coldy Valdir]

New Bucharest, Romania


http://i.imgur.com/b2rxSrF.jpg

[Archduke]

Then you have to visit both before talking , go visit the center of Athens and then came back to the topix. The pictures that u posted are ''Art'' of Edi Rama(bitch) who pretented to take care of Tirana and all he did was painting some old buildings. Can't believe that how he controle the whole country :picard1: I think when i'll go for Christmas in Albania they gonna arest me for what i say about him on net. :lol:

Take it easy, sweety.

I've been to Athens and the city is super nice for its size. I really can't judge since ive never been to Tirana, but from the stuff I hear, read and see I can make my conclusions.

[ALSh]

Meanwhile in Kosovo is being build the tallest scyscraper in the Balcan, 42 floors
http://i.imgur.com/FNR4Cp2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/UFbfvnD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TpQuxPY.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mtIqMOxBu5A/UlAgQTkK36I/AAAAAAAA1M4/AWfOCr1ux6s/w1048-h786-no/IMG_4415.JPG
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Kic-pUDafRw/UlsFAlIULvI/AAAAAAAA1WU/VpMPQutNCxI/w1015-h682-no/IMG_5419.JPG

[Minesweeper]

There are some nice cities here and there, but generally I think that all Balkan countries (except maybe the northern parts and Greece) have ugly architecture. There isn't one that's uglier than the other, they are all shitty looking..

Find pictures of Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Bucharest. All cities have commie blocks and poor neighborhoods but also stunning architecture, especially in older parts.

[La Misse]

Korca, South Albania the place that Edi D-Rama didn't tuch yet. Much better than Tirana.
http://ethnikismosblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/korytsa.jpg

[Archduke]

Korca, South Albania the place that Edi D-Rama didn't tuch yet. Much better than Tirana.
http://ethnikismosblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/korytsa.jpg

Gjirokaster and Saranda are also super nice. They remind me a lot for Bulgaria.

[La Misse]

Meanwhile in Kosovo is being build the tallest scyscraper in the Balcan, 42 floors
http://i.imgur.com/FNR4Cp2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/UFbfvnD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TpQuxPY.jpg
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mtIqMOxBu5A/UlAgQTkK36I/AAAAAAAA1M4/AWfOCr1ux6s/w1048-h786-no/IMG_4415.JPG
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Kic-pUDafRw/UlsFAlIULvI/AAAAAAAA1WU/VpMPQutNCxI/w1015-h682-no/IMG_5419.JPG

guess who's going to live there ;)

[Agron]

Find pictures of Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Bucharest. All cities have commie blocks and poor neighborhoods but also stunning architecture, especially in older parts.
I know that there are nice places in those cities (there are nice places in every balkan country ), but the shitty looks is in majority (except Ljubljana).

[Coldy Valdir]

New Tirana, Albania


http://i.imgur.com/8YcsXyg.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/M8Dnzex.jpg


At 100 year Albanian state (Independence Day)
http://i.imgur.com/Pcm7x66.jpg


Tirana Skyline
http://i.imgur.com/3J8mPNp.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/dbNoFj2.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/Imsz8rh.jpg

[miscellaneous]

this! Archduke do you see??!

So you're proving the better architecture of Tirana by showing the bad places of Athens?

I would like to have some greek on this thread, because Tirana having better architecture is something I hear for the first time, and guess I'm not surprised an albanian claiming so, who by the way who knows for what reason left his beautiful Tirana for that ugly Athenian architecture.

[Shah-Jehan]

Meanwhile in Kosovo is being build the tallest scyscraper in the Balcan, 42 floors

The tallest skyscraper in the Balkan technically is in Istanbul (the European part) but, I guess that's the tallest of Balkan nations...

[Coldy Valdir]

So you're proving the better architecture of Tirana by showing the bad places of Athens?

I would like to have some greek on this thread, because Tirana having better architecture is something I hear for the first time, and guess I'm not surprised an albanian claiming so, who by the way who knows for what reason left his beautiful Tirana for that ugly Athenian architecture.

I thought this was a commie block thread, my bad. What else can you see in East Europe?

[Agron]

Korca, South Albania the place that Edi D-Rama didn't tuch yet. Much better than Tirana.
http://ethnikismosblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/korytsa.jpg

Berat is also very nice

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Berat_Albania_bridge.jpg

[miscellaneous]

I thought this was a commie block thread, my bad. What else can you see in East Europe?

If in your mind architecture expires with commie blocks than I agree.

[ALSh]

Shkoder, north Albania
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5493/10089938854_0233b8537d_b.jpg
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8257/10278501654_0f9b888c95_b.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5447/10278592146_846d16ea8d_b.jpg
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3739/10316376586_11af7c731e_b.jpg

Communist block are like this
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3832/10057411443_859e456cf4_b.jpg

[Coldy Valdir]

If in your mind architecture expires with commie blocks than I agree.

Architecture of communism broski. Architecture in my mind is a bottle of wine, a fork or even a chair.

[Minesweeper]

I know that there are nice places in those cities (there are nice places in every balkan country ), but the shitty looks is in majority (except Ljubljana).

Every large city in the world has a shitty part. London has it, Berlin has it. Poor have to live somewhere. Only way to fight ''shittiness'' in that case wold be to kill or displace the poor and destroy their neighborhoods.

[Insuperable]

I know that there are nice places in those cities (there are nice places in every balkan country ), but the shitty looks is in majority (except Ljubljana).

Speak for yourself

[miscellaneous]

Than your mind is very imaginative.

[Shah-Jehan]

IMO, most of the Balkan's rural architecture is pretty soothing, the urban architecture however should be more creative...

[Agron]

Every large city in the world has a shitty part. London has it, Berlin has it. Poor have to live somewhere. Only way to fight ''shittiness'' in that case wold be to kill the poor and destroy their neighborhoods.

I agree with you that every city has its shitty parts, but from the places I've been, I think that in Balkans they are the ugliest. Don't get me wrong, I don't say that only slav countries have these ugly buildings, but the whole Balkans.

[Agron]

Speak for yourself

Well I never did anything else.. I thought it was clear that I was speaking from my point of view.

[Coldy Valdir]

Berat, Albania since 6th century BC


http://i.imgur.com/vz0Dts0.jpg

Gjirokaster, Albania since early Iron Age

http://i.imgur.com/1VD0pmQ.jpg

[Insuperable]

Well I never did anything else.. I thought it was clear that I was speaking from my point of view.

It is just a stupid expression first of all. I don't know much about cities and places on Balkans, but it is a heresy to put Austro-Hungarian influenced town like Zagreb (or others like Varazdin) and Italo-Venetian influenced like those in Dalmatia and Istria in the same basket with certain other Balkano-Ottoman towns.

[dralos]

Propably the returned emigrants buy them.
most are bought by pdk the party of thaci the rat

[Agron]

It is just a stupid expression first of all. I don't know much about other cities, but it is a heresy to put Austro-Hungarian influenced town like Zagreb (or others like Varazdin) and Italo-Venetian influenced like those in Dalmatia and Istria in the same basket with certain other Balkano-Ottoman towns.

Well I already said that the northern parts are different than the rest (I consider Croatia to be one of those northern parts).

[dralos]

It is just a stupid expression first of all. I don't know much about cities and places on Balkans, but it is a heresy to put Austro-Hungarian influenced town like Zagreb (or others like Varazdin) and Italo-Venetian influenced like those in Dalmatia and Istria in the same basket with certain other Balkano-Ottoman towns.
be thankful to the mighty germans and italians bcs you didnt built any of that

[Insuperable]

be thankful to the mighty germans and italians bcs you didnt built any of that

Better Germans and Italians than Turks from European point of view.

[dralos]

Better Germans and Italians than Turks from European point of view.
turks didnt built anything in kosova or albania if that was your point but offc its better germans and italians bcs turks suck

[Insuperable]

turks didnt built anything in kosova or albania if that was your point but offc its better germans and italians bcs turks suck

So why do you think that Germans and Italians built everything here (Onur and other Turks who are not here anymore stated many times here how Ottomans built everything across Balkans so I am just quoting them)? Being a part of someone doesn't mean that after all, but being influenced is an another matter and in my opinion the most important though. Please don't embarrass yourself by showing your butthurt. I heard the same from many people and it is becoming quite annoying. The topic of the thread is what is says and nothing else in any case.

[bimo]

It must be either Bulgaria or Albania unfortunately. Sofia is the ugliest looking capital from all Balkan capitals (Tirana is uglier as far as Ive heard, but I have never been there).

c'mon if we exclude big commie shitty blocks bulgarian architecture is beautiful , also those block are just in some suburbs

and sofia is on the way to become much more beautiful , see the new part of vitosha boulevard

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Sofia,_Vitosha_Boulevard.jpg

http://www.kolikovski.com/pic/Vitosha_BoulevardL.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ARQ1xVE0l0c/UgauQZeUE0I/AAAAAAAAAHI/EzMcb44RHnk/s1600/IMG_1786.JPG

[KrashNick]

Meanwhile in Kosovo is being build the tallest scyscraper in the Balcan, 42 floors



This is how it will look outside & inside .

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/250087_373128622765338_883978506_n.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/69081_373129042765296_1908430346_n.jpg

And here is "Dukagjini WTC" in Prishtina

https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/302500_373139746097559_731845325_n.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/cD2hNXR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/5iNxGhk.jpg

[Szegedist]

Though not in the poll, but Regat has the ugliest architecture. Just look at their finest masterpiece, "Palace of the People".

[Vlach]

Neo-Romanian Arhitecture :thumb001:
http://i40.tinypic.com/23wjpfd.jpg

http://i44.tinypic.com/w0nnk2.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/20uzr6q.jpg

[Permafrost]

Find pictures of Belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Bucharest. All cities have commie blocks and poor neighborhoods but also stunning architecture, especially in older parts.

*You erroneously lumped Ljubljana with Balkan cities, might wanna correct that bro.

Agree for the rest, I visited both Zagreb and Belgrade and must say both cities have really beautiful sights to offer, as do they have ugly ones. I find Balkan capitals quite charming in their own way so voted none.

[Minesweeper]

*You erroneously lumped Ljubljana with Balkan cities, might wanna correct that bro.

Agree for the rest, I visited both Zagreb and Belgrade and must say both cities have really beautiful sights to offer, as do they have ugly ones. I find Balkan capitals quite charming in their own way so voted none.


There's a funny story how tourists agencies don't tour the parts of Belgrade below Vracar plateau/St. Sava temple(where old city ends). When tourists want to go further they tell them ''you've seen enough'' and they return to their countries with the impression that Serbia is not that far from EU standards. xD

[Permafrost]

There's a funny story how tourists agencies don't tour the parts of Belgrade below Vracar plateau/St. Sava temple(where old city ends). When tourists want to go further they tell them ''you've seen enough'' and they return to their countries with the impression that Serbia is not that far from EU standards. xD

Funny. I presume that is so because the St. Sava temple marks the beginning of New Belgrade? Well yeah, all those buildings of same shapes, built on 90 degree junctions are kinda reminiscent of socialist realism.

Although there are some recent architectural wonders in Belgrade, like the new bridge (designed by Slovenes (http://www.bizi.si/PONTING-D-O-O/maticno-podjetje/), btw)

[Minesweeper]

Funny. I presume that is so because the St. Sava temple marks the beginning of New Belgrade? Well yeah, all those buildings of same shapes, built on 90 degree junctions are kinda reminiscent of socialist realism.

Although there are some recent architectural wonders in Belgrade, like the new bridge (designed by Slovenes (http://www.bizi.si/PONTING-D-O-O/maticno-podjetje/), btw)

Lena should explain it, if she reads this. :D But yes, something like that. Some not so fancy parts of the city are further south.

Reconstructing the facades of old buildings should be the priority imo. But some progress is made, I'd say.

[Permafrost]

Lena should explain it, if she reeds this. :D But yes, something like that. Some not so fancy parts of the city are further south.

Reconstructing the facades of old buildings should be the priority imo. But some progress is made, I'd say.

I'll be sure to see it in detail myself, on my next visit (the 3rd one).

[bozkur]

IMO, most of the Balkan's rural architecture is pretty soothing, the urban architecture however should be more creative...

Athens

https://c1.staticflickr.com/7/6208/6133661090_2a54b1092e_o.jpg

Bucharest

http://testpressing.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Bucharest_Collage_1.jpg

[bozkur]

FYROM with their fake "macedonian" renaissance.

:coffee:

[bozkur]

It must be either Bulgaria or Albania unfortunately. Sofia is the ugliest looking capital from all Balkan capitals (Tirana is uglier as far as Ive heard, but I have never been there).

Sofia is very ugly

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/panorama-sofia-city-suburbs-panoramatic-view-southern-suburb-buildings-architecture-capital-bulgaria-hill-rila-69148962.jpg

[Hithaeglir]

FYROM.Most of the villages and smaller cities look like chicken houses.

[Dandelion]

Macedonia. Gilded statues of Alexander the Great everywhere.

http://www.exploringmacedonia.com/content/images/Skopje/large/Skopje%20big%20pic%20(7).jpg

[bozkur]

Macedonia. Gilded statues of Alexander the Great everywhere.

http://www.exploringmacedonia.com/content/images/Skopje/large/Skopje%20big%20pic%20(7).jpg

:picard2:

[bozkur]

Belgrade (Sebia)

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[Hithaeglir]

^^ Not even close :D