I was looking at the old printscreens of my city Budkograd yesterday when I thought it might be funny to describe how it developed through ages. So I decided to post its history in this blog...
Budkograd was founded just before 2017 Winter Event. Although it has been the capital city for centuries, it hasn't grown to a gygantic megacity full of skyscrapers. Instead, the capital region of the country consists of quite small towns where factories and cultural buildings are situated. Even Budkograd remains a rather small town. These towns are surrounded by even smaller towns and villages where most people live. The entire region is connected by a well-developed transport net. Trains and the metro connect towns to each other, buses carries people from towns to neighbouring villages and back.
In ancient times Budkograd used to grow without a clear plan but later it became clear to its rulers that there was little room to build all necessary buildings and they needed to draw a well-thought-out plan of the city before. So in the Progressive Era the city was rebuild completely, stretching in several lines along three long streets. Unfortunately, old pictures of Budkograd have been lost, and the earliest ones remained came from the Modern Era.
The northern line included mostly touristic attractions and places where Budkograd citizens spent their free time: the Catholic cathedral, the Royal Albert Hall theatre (also used as a cinema), a beautiful hotel Château Frontenac, an ethnographic museum built in the shape of an Aztec temple, two parks (one in the Japanese style), a square in the Venetian style with a lovely street cafe and a boating station, also in the Venetian style (Budkograd is situated on a little peninsula).
The second and the third lines were divided into two areas. There were the town hall and a publishing house in the east, and the west part was residential. The second line consists mostly of social infrastracture: two schools, two little clinics, a clothing store , a market, an old windmill, some little gardens and pavillions. The third line was formed by several residential houses.
Across the motorway there were situated plants and factories. Many people from nearby villages worked at them. The dirtiest and the most dangerous plants were built in the east so in the west the residential part of the city stayed as clean and safe as possible. The factories were also surrounded by fountains and garden squares (Budkograd was always considered to be a very green city). At the crossroads there were situated a cafe where the workers usually had their lunch, a police station and a couple of shops. The metro entrance was not far from them. The metro connected Budkograd to a lot of nearby towns, the international airport and the railway stations.
A plenty of touristic attractions were situated in the south. In the centre there were three more old churches (one Lutheran and two Orthodoxal -- different religions always co-existed peacefully in Budkograd), an ancient monastery and a beautiful old castle . An old Gothic building stayed in the east. It belonged to Budkograd University and had been built in the Middle Ages. During the Modern Era there were situated faculty of astronomy and faculty of biology (the other faculties moved to the towns near Budkograd). It was surrounded by the library, the observatory and the zoo (built in the Indian style ), where university students and professors could do necessary research. In the Modern Era Budkograd zoo was not as large as know but it already had tigers, elephants and monkeys.
Budkograd always provides entertiment for children. in the Modern Era there was a carousel between schools, and Budkograd pupils could ride it free during the breaks. There also was a playground for little children with a kite, a pirate-themed program and funny statues of Nutcracker and cute bears. Teenagers from Budkograd and nearby villages spent a lot of time at a roller skating rink .