I’ve been travelliing for a couple of weeks now…in former Soviet Bloc countries: Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. And yee gads…the Soviets certainly had a particular brutalist style of architecture…especially when building apartment blocks. Square, ugly concrete blocks repeated in each country.
Bucharest is, in my books, one of the ugliest. Not only does it have hideous buildings, over crowded streets, but many of the buildings are covered in graffiti. I’m sure there must be some charming streets here, but I didn’t see them.
Somehow, Bulgaria, though it has its share of this apartment blocks, has also maintained its Roman/medieval cities and sea gardens–lovely parks along the side of the Black Sea.
Wondering what’s the ugliest place others have visited?