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Lipscani Street is the one that was meant to be – just like in most other 'regular' big cities – a pedestrian street. However it has turned into a wide bazaar with cars bugging pedestrians at times, decaying beautiful houses and plenty of small lovely shops. The name of the street comes from the merchants that used to come here with merchandise brought from Lipsca (Leipzig). Façades illustrate all 19th century architectural styles, from the Classical one (see building at number 21) to the Art Nouveau style (number 72-74). The street is nowadays (just like it originally was) a noisy bazaar, with merchants selling everything from blue jeans, to wedding dresses, Indian incense sticks or pretzels. It is neither clean, nor it has a proper pavement, but this is the way a real, functioning bazaar should be (I am not referring here to the Egyptian bazaar in Istanbul, that has lost its original purpose). This is not a museum and it is not meant for tourists either.
Note: After years of grand promises, the local authorities made an attempt to close the Old Town for cars. They partially succeeded to do so for the first part, but, when they started digging ditches along the main streets of the old quarter, also removing all pavement, they succeeded indeed to keep cars out. Now they go on working, to replace the sewing system, to put in internet and electricity cables, to replace all pavement. Pedestrians have to cling on rather unstable wooden bridges along the former sidewalk, which, especially at night, in the rather dim light provided by scarce lights, give one that Kathmandu-during-curfew feeling. No rickshaws in sight unfortunately, but no "7.40 lei / km." taxis either. Thank God. And Buddha. Leave a Comment Address: Lipscani Street, between Balcescu and Victoria Ave
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 Interior of the palace by Romanian_Bat
On April 4, 1944, the palace was damaged once again by the air raids of the Allies. In September 1946 it was restored. After King Michael being forced to abdicate on December 30, 1947, the palace was virtually robbed by the communists. Most of the books from King Ferdinand’s library (about 6700 tomes bound in gold or silk) were burnt in the garden, sculptures and paintings were stolen or destroyed, while rare pieces of furniture were loaded on trucks and smashed in the south-east of Bucharest. Moreover, between 1949 and 1976 it hosted a pupils’ club, fact that continued its deterioration which was completed by the earthquake in March 1977.
The church built by Serban Cantacuzino was however turned into an old religious art museum that existed between 1968 and 1984. The palace was restored between 1977 and 1988 because President Ceausescu wanted to turn it into a luxurious hotel for diplomats. This way, the palace was given back it splendor, but with a quite high price: in June 1984 Ceausescu ordered the demolition of the church which had just celebrated 300 years of existence because it “spoiled the view”; only the cells survived and nowadays they shelter a few elements extracted from the former church (the portal, several columns, Serban Cantacuzino’s tombstone). On the July 12, 1991 a part of it was turned into a museum, while the rest was meant for the president. Leave a Comment
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 The Choral Temple by Romanian_Bat
The best known monument of Jewish heritage is The Choral Temple, generally open only for services, but you could try your luck with the guards at the gate. The temple was designed by Enderle and Freiwald, inspired by Ludwig von Förster which was drawing the plans for the Leopoldstadt-Tempelgasse built in Vienna in 1855-1858. Being plundered by the Legionaries, the building was refurbished in 1945. The building has contra-forts and small towers in the corners, while the rosettes existing on the front facade nicely process cruciform concepts, also existing in the model of Vienna. In front of the monumental building there is a monument of the Holocaust, a great Menora that well balances the small yard. There are services weekly on Fridays (the hour changes), as well as on Saturdays at 08.30 and 18.00. Leave a Comment Address: 9 Sfanta Vineri, tel.: (021)3122196
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This impressive building is situated on Doamnei St., very close to the Calea Victoriei (Victoria Avenue); it was built between 1915-1922 after the plans of the Romanian architect Petre Antonescu and housed (before the nationalisation in 1948) the Marmorosch-Blank Bank. After the Revolution, it became the headquarter of the Romanian Bank for Investment - nowadays the Romanian Bank for Development, member of Societe Generale Group.
Now it is closed (renovation works needed). Leave a Comment Address: 4-6 Doamnei St., Bucharest
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 RCB building by codrutz
This building - situated just across the street from the University - dates back to 1887 and it was initially the headquarter of a large insurance company.
Now it is the central headquarters of the Romanian Comercial Bank - the country's biggest bank, recently aquired by Erste Bank Austria. Leave a Comment
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One of my favourite buildings in Bucharest and one of the most interesting examples of modern architecture in Europe, is the former Securitate building, sometimes referred to as the building shell. After it was largely destroyed by protesters in 2003, the Union of Romanian Architects built a modern building inside its ruins. So, now the lower half appears to be an old brick building while the upper half is a modern glass structure.
It is innovative modern architecture yet, at the same time, it is aesthetically pleasing. Leave a Comment Directions: At the north-eastern corner of Piaţa Revolutiei, on Strada Dobrescu.
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 Romanian Government building by codrutz
Vis-a-vis of the Government building there is the more interesting Museum of Natural History "Grigore Antipa". Leave a Comment Directions: Piata Victoriei (Victoriei Square)
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On Lipscani Street at number 63, there is a passage secured with an iron gate: there is Hanul cu Tei (The Linden Tree Inn), built in 1883, the only caravanserai in the city that preserved its original shape. The inn has another entrance from Blanari Street, above which one can still admire the seal of the two people that had it built. Together with buildings on Selari and Soarelui streets, the inn provides a good introduction to the Wallachian glass covered facade (which can still be admired in Bucharest, Craiova and a few other cities). The inn was turned in the 1970s into a bunch of interesting antique and art shops. Especially the painting shops are interesting, while the whole inner yard provides a welcome break from the city bustle outside. Leave a Comment Address: 63 Lipscani
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Romaniei, Bucuresti by Fam_Stoica, 4 more photosLeave a Comment Address: 4 Ion Ghica St., BucharestPhone: +40 21 314 24 34Directions: Near the National Bank of Romania - mapWebsite: www.bibnat.ro Other Contact: go@bibnat.ro
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