A villa on the streets behind the Oblemenco stadium — columned porch, round gable window, gilded balcony ironworkGilded eagles on the gates of another on the same street, the stadium shell rising directly behind the roofNumber 31, not yet identified: a villa of about 1900 with a zinc-scaled pyramid roof and spire, a corner turret, and a double-arched loggia on squat columns under a stone balcony, all of it behind a rusting Art Nouveau gate. A heritage plaque is fixed to the pier by the door, which is how we know it is listed and not what it is called. If you can read the plaque, tell usA curved glass drum on Strada Opanez, pizzeria and terrace on the ground floor and a children’s play centre painted across the glass above it. The billboard beside it is advertising Târgu Jiu — 2026 as the national Brâncuşi year, 150 years since his birth — and has nothing to do with the buildingCraiova from a high-rise on a clear October afternoon: a tree-lined boulevard running straight to the horizon, blocks of flats on the left, a long red-tiled complex on the right, and the hills beyond the city on the skyline. The blue road sign below points to Timisoara and Targu JiuThe building site of Craiova's new hospital, October 2026: a forest of tower cranes over concrete frames already four and five storeys high, with site huts and stacks of building blocks in the gravel yard in frontSunset over a stubble field on the edge of the city, poplars on the right and the low skyline on the horizon, 8 October 2026
A running gallery of things photographed around Craiova in daylight — buildings, corners and details that caught the eye without being sights in their own right. Not a route and not a list: just what the city looks like when you are walking through it. Added to as they are found, in no order at all. The night-time equivalent is on its own page.
Where the glass drum is
Strada Opanez, on the corner. Mapped because it is the one in this gallery people ask about — the rest are found by walking.
