I would say that this place is not as beautiful as your photos show it and as beautiful and romantical as you described it. 😂
I have nothing against it. I don't even take the authorities/"the power" into account when it comes to it. One must always abstract from the environment, i.e. one must see and consider only the objects and evaluate them by their own value, and not in relation to the pitiful life in this miserable place.
What we have here - Stalinist architecture, but not even as pompous and majestic as it could be, as it is in other countries with a similar fate to ours.🤷‍♀️
But as I said, your magical creativity manages to show everything in its best light, to bring out the best in an object on display.😊📸🏦