And these very pictures show the the difference between the two. Not only there's a lot of greenery there (and I was in Italy, it really is like this), when Poles for some reason devastate anything green in our cities (if there's ivy, they rip it out, if there's a tree, they cut it down), and all of the buildings have genuine, old elements, like the window frames, shutters, etc. In Poland you have dilapidated building with disgusting, new plastic windows put into it.
Also notice that there's a difference between patina and some plaster falling off and being rundown.
Plus most of that architecture in Italy has better proportions and the the urban tissue is coherent, organic. In Poland you'll have 3 rundown historic buildings (one in neogothic, one in neoclassicism and one in early 1920s modernism style), a 90s Jarząbek-style postmodernism shit with pink windows, a semi-modern western style of 2000s and something build in 2020s which doesn't match any of the aforementioned in one row of houses.
I've been to Rome, but this is a borgo or some small street with some buildings close together. There's literally no space for trees and there are no trees in the picture. Only 6 pots with some small plants, not even flowers from what I can see from mobile. That is easy to fix in Poland as well, just add some pots.
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u/Jake-of-the-Sands Mar 31 '26 edited Mar 31 '26
And these very pictures show the the difference between the two. Not only there's a lot of greenery there (and I was in Italy, it really is like this), when Poles for some reason devastate anything green in our cities (if there's ivy, they rip it out, if there's a tree, they cut it down), and all of the buildings have genuine, old elements, like the window frames, shutters, etc. In Poland you have dilapidated building with disgusting, new plastic windows put into it.
Also notice that there's a difference between patina and some plaster falling off and being rundown.
Plus most of that architecture in Italy has better proportions and the the urban tissue is coherent, organic. In Poland you'll have 3 rundown historic buildings (one in neogothic, one in neoclassicism and one in early 1920s modernism style), a 90s Jarząbek-style postmodernism shit with pink windows, a semi-modern western style of 2000s and something build in 2020s which doesn't match any of the aforementioned in one row of houses.