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Bucharest
With a history of more than half a millennium, Bucharest known in the period between the two world wars as "Small Paris", continues to be an unique combination between the European west culture and Balkanism.
Like any other old city, Bucharest also has events and buildings which contribute to its distinctive fascination: palaces, gardens and churches, demolitions and constructions, wars and revolutions. All these make Bucharest a European capital.
Inhabitants: 2.021.000
Surface : 228 km2 (0,8% from the surface of Romania, out of which the constructed surface is
of 70%).
It would be a loss to visit Bucharest without seeing, at least a part of what we are suggesting you.
Romanian Atheneum
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C. Esarcu, V.A. Ureche and N. Kretulescu established in 1865 the institution named Romanian Athenaeum with the purpose of "endowing the people with useful knowledge". In 1886, the construction started, following the plans of the French architect Albert Galleron and it was
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inaugurated on February 14th 1888. Here, the "G. Enescu" Philharmonic has its headquarters and here also some of the most respectable conductors and interpretative soloists of the XX Century have developed.
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The People's House
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The People's House was constructed after the '80s, having a height of 84m, (with 12 floors) has a distinctive mark, with a surface of 330.000 m 'becomes the second building in the world after Pentagon. Here Ceausescu wanted (Romania' a president until the revolution from 1889) to be the president's residence, the central committee of the communist party and some ministries. The palace contains large halls, many large rooms, and the biggest room is called Unirii Room, with a height of 16 m and a surface of 2200 square meters, here being the largest chandelier from the palace, with a weight of 3 tones and 7000 bulbs.
The Dictator did not spare any effort, the
interiors having an outstanding luxury:
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ienormous marble stairs, ceilings with laces ornaments, Mosaics in special colors, carved doors, many rows of chandeliers, carpets made on special commands, furniture with the same beautiful design as these beauties and many others.
At the revolution there were finished only few rooms and the exterior, from this date till 1997 the works continued, when it becomes the Parliament" s Palace. In front of it is the Constitution Square (which is the place where the shows, the deflations, the celebrations take place) from which begins the Unirii Boulevard (the former Victoria Socialismului Boulevard), which Ceausescu wanted larger than Champs Elysees. The entire road is full I of fountains, bigger or smaller, decorated in stone and whose aesthetic level draw many controversies.
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The Triumph Arch
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The Triumph Arch was built in 1922 from wood and stucco, as a tribute to the Unification, after the sacrifice of the Romanian army in the First World War, arch which was replaced with a rock one during 1935-1936.
The south part is decorated with two bronze medallions which represent the
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faces of King Ferdinand and Queen Maria, which replace the original ones, destroyed by the communist regime, after the "80. In their place were applied two big rock flowers, which were removed, after 1989, and the royal faces return at their places.
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The Village Museum
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In the spring of 1936 was built the Romanian Village Museum. At the opening, the museum had a surface of 5 ha and only 30 country houses, which represented different areas f the country. During years, the museum surface reached to 15 ha, and the number of houses exceeds the number of 300; a surface of
4 ha is equipped with
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all the necessary things a country house has (garage, annexes, churches, etc).
In 1977 received the name of The Village and Popular Arts Museum through the unification with The Museum of Popular Arts. In March 1990, after revolution, was again divided, the first one becoming The Village Museum and the latter becoming The Museum of the Romanian peasant. Located on the one side of the Herestrau Park parallel with the Kiseleff road, the Village Museum through its size, become the biggest open air museum from Europe.
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Cismighi Park
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In 1847 under the guidance of the landscape-painter Carl F. W. I Meyer started the improvement works, and in 1854 was the official opening.
Nowadays the garden is still impressing with its floral arrangement, remarkable collection of the dendrologic material; here we can find some trees that are declared to
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be protected trees. Cismigiu is never a desert park, in the summer being seek for chill, for its vegetation and its lake full of boats which in the winter becomes a real skating rink.
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The Opera
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Although lyric activities dates in Romania since XlXth century, the Romanian Opera is a relative new building (1953) build after the project of the architect Octav Doicescu. Its total capacity is of 2200 places, and it also houses the Opera Museum at the last level, where there are exposed documents, photographs, costumes illustrating the
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development of this artistic gender in Romania. In front of the building is placed the statue of the great musician George Enescu, a bronze sculpture made by Ion Jalea.
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