{"id":171,"date":"2009-05-14T11:48:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T08:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castle.nicuilie.eu\/?p=171"},"modified":"2014-05-31T20:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T20:13:34","slug":"the-palace-of-culture-sturdza-iassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/the-palace-of-culture-sturdza-iassy\/05\/","title":{"rendered":"The Palace of Culture (Sturdza), Iassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iassy (Iasi) is the old capital of Moldavia Kingdom, now part of Romania. The Palace of Culture, acknowledged as effigy of the city of Iasi, was built in the neogothic style and as such was one of the last expressions of Romanticism in the official architecture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/05\/palat.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2009\/05\/palat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it was not raised on top of ancient foundations, as people thought at the beginning of the 20th century, the Palace was partly built on top of the ruins of the mediaeval princely courts, mentioned in a document of 1434, and partly on top of the foundations of the former (neoclassical) palace, dated to the time of Prince Alexandru Moruzi (1806-1812), rebuilt by Prince Mihail Sturza (1841-1843) and finally demolished in 1904. It was from this latter building that the Palace inherited the legend of the 365 rooms, as many as the days within one year.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.romanianmonasteries.org\/rom\/images\/palatul-culturii-iasi3.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.romanianmonasteries.org\/rom\/images\/palatul-culturii-iasi3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The edifice was built between 1906 and 1925, and is the most outstanding work of Romanian architect I.D. Berindei, who was trained at the Parisian School. Decoratively, the central hall shows a figurative mosaic including various representations of a gothic bestiarum, concentrically arranged: two-headed eagles, dragons, griffons, lions. The hall is superposed by a glass ceiling room, where initially a greenhouse was arranged.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of its archaic-looking design, the Palace was designed so to integrate modern materials and technologies. Thus, the stone blocks were replaced with light and much cheaper materials. Besides, some rooms were decorated using a special material licensed by Henri Coanda, under the name of bois-ciment and imitating the oak wood. Decorative ironmongery elements are also remarkable and they can be admired for instance on the doors of the Voivodes&#8217; Hall. The building was also equipped with high-tech facilities for those times, such as electric lighting, (pneumatic) heating, ventilation system, thermostat, vacuum cleaners, which were all directed from the machinery room, at the underground level. Taking also into account the 14 fires that affected the previous buildings, Berindei treated the wooden structure of the attic with an ignifugeous product called orniton, while for the roof he used a special material, named eternite.<\/p>\n<p>The building, inaugurated on 11 October 1925, served as Palace of Justice until 1955, when its destination was changed, being assigned to the museums nowadays united under the name of &#8220;Moldova&#8221; National Museum Complex of Iasi.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madrid.mae.ro\/images\/gallery\/madrid\/palatul_culturii_iasi_95415e1fd861377f1b095dd8b3b94c9d_19.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/madrid.mae.ro\/images\/gallery\/madrid\/palatul_culturii_iasi_95415e1fd861377f1b095dd8b3b94c9d_19.jpg\" alt=\"palace of culture\" width=\"496\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iassy (Iasi) is the old capital of Moldavia Kingdom, now part of Romania. The Palace of Culture, acknowledged as effigy of the city of Iasi, was built in the neogothic style and as such was one of the last expressions of Romanticism in the official architecture. Although it was not raised on top of ancient&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/the-palace-of-culture-sturdza-iassy\/05\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Palace of Culture (Sturdza), Iassy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[73,93,275,527,701,768,784,916,972,1003,1005,1045,1113,1114,1399,1402,1411,1532,11,1773,1780,1785,1851,1943,1965,1988,2046,2122,2133,2143],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palaces","tag-alexandru","tag-ancient-foundations","tag-bois","tag-ciment","tag-doors","tag-edifice","tag-electric-lighting","tag-foundations","tag-glass-ceiling","tag-greenhouse","tag-griffons","tag-henri-coanda","tag-iasi","tag-iassy","tag-modern-materials","tag-moldavia","tag-mosaic","tag-palace","tag-palaces","tag-romania","tag-romanians","tag-romanticism","tag-school","tag-spite","tag-stone-blocks","tag-sturza","tag-thermostat","tag-underground-level","tag-vacuum-cleaners","tag-ventilation-system"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IfKt-2L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41,"url":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/cotroceni-palace-romania\/06\/","url_meta":{"origin":171,"position":0},"title":"Cotroceni Palace (Romania)","author":"hrnicu","date":"June 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Situated in a superb garden, the Cotroceni Palace presents the architectural design of a distinct unity. 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