All across Europe, it’s possible to see ancient buildings, still standing and in apparent good repair, despite centuries of aging and more recently, bombing.
In many cases, that’s the result of painstaking reconstruction and repair, allowing us at least the illusion of visiting “how things were.” But occasionally, as above, there’s a horrible bad example of how not to do it. That glossy ‘tribute’ building is a replacement for the one below, built in the 16th century next door to Riga’s Town Hall and House of the Black Heads.
And it’s not the only ‘remuddled’ building in the group, which faces the main town square… note the one just to the left of it!
And here are the neighbors, the Town Hall and House of the Black Heads: destroyed in 1941, and rebuilt in the 1990s.
