Image taken in Italy
“They are never really dead, but they are never really alive either,” Pavlovic writes about these mansions on his website, explaining a project that began in 2015 and continues to thrive today. He finds these constructions in both rural and urban areas of the continent and explains to the Creative Boom page that currently there are an incredible number of abandoned mansions and castles, most of them left behind by their owners to flee social or political persecution.
Somewhere in Belgium is this abandoned treasure
"The World Wars left many scars. As for the abandoned mansions of rich families, many are concentrated in countries that had weak positions in the conflicts," assures Domus Pavlovic.
The photographer travels Europe in search of these geniuses
"Most of these houses were abandoned for the regime to take over. After the conflict, the survivors of these families recovered them. However, when the world entered the post-war economic crises, they were abandoned again. E The collapse of the economies and the high rates of emigration marked their destiny" , the photographer explains that, with Dulcis Domus, she wants to preserve the memory of these places and the families that once inhabited them.
Nature has invaded many of these mansions