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A short while afterwards, on the same left side of the street we meet George Enescu Museum, hosted by a great and monumental building, Cantacuzino Palace (see my special tip for this building). Across the street from it there is the former Italian Legation, nowadays hosting the Art History Institute; the building was designed by architects Grigore Cerchez and Alexandre Clavel, a fine sample of the Eclectic style that was prevailing during the end of the 19th century, with Neoclassical decoration. Soon afterwards we enter Victoria Square in which there are also a few places to mention. To the left, between Ion Mihalache Avenue and Kiseleff Road there is Grigore Antipa Natural History Museum (as we enter from Victoria Avenue, we turn left, cross the tram lines, turn right and cross Titulescu Avenue on top of the passage, then cross once again the tram lines to the right and reach the Antipa). Farther up the Kiseleff there is the Romanian Peasant Museum and across the street from it there is the Geology Museum. See my special posts for them. After crossing Kiseleff Road and Aviatorilor Avenue, we can cast a look at the Romanian Government building (1937-1952, originally meant for the Foreign Affairs Ministry). Leave a Comment
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Victoriei by Romanian_Bat, 4 more photosLeave a Comment
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Just across the street from Cretulescu Church there is the former headquarters of the Communist Party in Romania (“the Central Committee”), from the roof of which former President Ceausescu left Bucharest by helicopter in December 1989, just to be caught hours later. Across the street from the Royal Palace there is another building that suffered severely from the shooting in the 1989: the Central University Library (built in 1891-1893 by King Charles the 1st and which lost all its books, as well as all decorations and statues inside during the 1989 events). Then, to the right, we can notice possibly the most beautiful building in the whole city: the domed Ateneul Roman (The Romanian Athenaeum).
Continuing alongside Victory Avenue, we meet, just after the Athenaeum, the Athenee Palace Hilton Hotel (1912), formerly built in the French style and transformed in the 30s in the actual modernism outlook, it was the first building in Romania to be conceived on a reinforced concrete structure. Walking on the same side of the street, we soon meet a small church to the right: the White Church (18th century, bearing a great iconostasis, brought here from the Episcopie Church that used to lie in the place of the Romanian Athenaeum). After a short while, just before crossing Dacia Avenue, we meet a sample of the inter bellum architecture in Bucharest: the 1934-1941 former State Monopolies Building, nowadays hosting the Ministry of Industry and Trade. We cross the Dacia and meet to the right Plaza Casino, hosted in a very nice building, then, across the street, through the dense trees one can notice the Romanian Academy (1890) and soon another gambling paradise: Palace Casino, hosted by the elegant Vernescu House (built in the beginning of the 19th century). Leave a Comment
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Returning on Victory Avenue, we immediately cross Regina Elisabeta Avenue. To the left there is the “Cercul Militar National” (The National Army Club), a French neoclassical building with an imposing 21 m. tall facade and corrinthean columns (1912). To the right there soon appears Capsa Restaurant (established in 1881), one of the classical places in the inter bellum city (nowadays quite expensive) and then, behind Attaturk statue, there is one of the smallest and still loveliest theaters in Bucharest, Odeon Theatre. On the opposite side of the street there is the Phone Palace (the first high building in the city, built in 1933 by two American architects, Louis Weeks and Walter Froy) and on the right, one of the oldest hotels in the city, namely Continental Hotel (1886), currently closed for restoration (rumour has it that they will turn it into a Kempinski). Across the street from the Continental there is a strange building. Otherwise an ugly and misplaced glass covered box (I find even communist apartment buildings more appealing than these characterless glass covered boxes), they have recreated in front of it the old facade of the National Theatre, bombed in WW2 (and rebuilt in University Square).
Soon afterwards we enter the wide Revolution Square (Piata Revolutiei), which concentrates a few interesting buildings, also playing host to the 1989 revolution with most of the buildings here suffering from the shootings. The first to be noticed is Cretulescu Church (1720-1722) to our left, a typical monument built in the Brancoveanu style (the only sort of a Romanian architectural style, blending elements from the traditional households with a trace of baroque and the Orthodox church structure). On the same side of the street there is Romania’s finest museum and possibly the sole good legacy of the shooting, because it was damaged in such a way that they had to entirely refurbish it and therefore make it a modern museum: The Royal Palace (see my separate tip regarding to the Royal Palace / National Art Museum). Leave a Comment
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Unirii-Bucharest-Romania by GroverdeanLeave a Comment
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Bulevardul Unirii is the greatest of Bucharest's boulevards constructed during the Ceausescu era. It links Piata Unirii to the Palace of the People and is flanked by grand apartment blocks built for the Communist Party elite. Leave a Comment Address: Bulevardul Unirii
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The building with the small tower in the centre hosts at the ground floor one of the best theatres in town - Bulandra theatre , and several education-related institutions - Socrates, Leonardo, Phare, World Bank programmes, UEFISCSU, Agence Francophone de Bucarest. Several student amphiteatres as well.
Believe it or not, the historic building on the right still serves as a student house. There is a student cafeteria at the ground floor of the student house - budget meal for 2-3 EUR. Leave a Comment Address: Izvor Underground, Pta. Kogalniceanu
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 hotel de France, early XX
century by josephescu
Interesting coincidence
The hotel changed name in Victoria in 1948, after being nationalised by communists. Since it's opening in 1860, it was called Hotel de France, Grand Hotel and Grand Hotel Lafayette.
The French came back to the same spot, when the construction works of the financial plaza was contracted to Bouygues. Leave a Comment
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Built around the same time as the opposite Palace of Posts, after the plans of famous French architect Paul Gottereau, between 1896 – 1900, the use of the building has remained unchanged throughout its history – headquarters of the first popular bank in the country – Casa de Economii si Consemnatiuni.
The CEC palace is at an equilibrium between aesthetic and functionality, maybe as a counterweight of the sobriety of the opposite Palace of Posts.
The interior is definitely worth seeing! Leave a Comment
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 Its a street with some amazing
villas by edvin_br
The street continuous from the crowded Victoriei sqaure until Romana square, where you can find the "wolf of Rome" statue that was given to Bucharest by the city of Rome in 1906. Leave a Comment Directions: Between Piata Victoriei and Piata Romana
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