AN EXPEDITION TO UNIONIST MONUMENTS

Text and photos Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
Design Florin Alexandru Stancu



In 2018 April 14 I left again the Sun of Bucharest
for a special expedition.

















This time I wanted to step a little, after a few hours,
on the ground of Transylvania,
the main subject of the 1918 Great Romanian Union.

















At the foot of the mountains,
the Sun saluted me again,
with a spectacular aura.















I crossed the Carpathians through the Prahova Valley,
admiring from the speed of the bus
the Wallachian elite architecture of the buildings
in Sinaia and Busteni…





































































… and the Transylvanian architecture of the houses
in Rasnov (Brasov County).

































Finally I stepped on the ground of Transylvania in Poiana Brasov,
where I saw the “local” Sun among the tree branches.

















In 2018 April 15 I left Transylvania,
returning to Bucharest.















Passing though Busteni, although from the speed of the bus again,
I meditatively breathed watching
the Cross of the Romanian Heroes on the Caraiman Peak,
which was built in the 1920s
and recognized as the tallest cross in the world at over 2,000 m altitude
by the Book of Records in the 2000s.











You can climb
from the Caraiman Cross to the Sun
only using
the bones of the heart
and the muscles of the soul.



After almost three hours
I arrived in Bucharest.







I stopped near another monument dedicated to the Great Romanian Union,
the Triumph Arch
(which was made in the 1920s, too).







Triumph Arch,
let me understand
how much the people worked for you
and how much the Sun’s hand.



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