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pictures Bucharest
Surface: 228 square kilometers (0.10 % of the
country's surface)
The
Climate of the city is temperate - continental, with slightly excessive
nuances and with some differentiations of the air temperature caused by
the supplementary heating of the street network from its interior or by
the burning of industrial and domestic fuels, by the radiation exerted by
the walls of the buildings, etc.
* The railway transport: The Northern Train station (Gara de Nord), inaugurated on 13/25 September 1872, the biggest train station from the city and from the country, The Obor Trainstation (Eastern Train Station), The Basarab Train Station (next to the Northern Train Station), The Baneasa Train Station and The Progresul Train Station. * The road transport: in Bucharest are concentrating, or going to different corners of the country eight national highways the continue towards the countries in the north, east, south, west and center of Europe. DN1 = BUCHAREST -
PLOIESTI - BRASOV - SIBIU - ALBA IULIA - CLUJ NAPOCA - ORADEA - BORS The communications
network inside the municipality The urban passenger transport in the Capital is made with varied vehicles: trams, buses, trolley-buses, taxi-cabs, minibuses, underground. The price of a ticket is 6,000 lei (7 July 2002). The tariffs of taxi-cab
companies are between 4,500 and 6,000 lei / kilometer.
*Airway transport - Bucharest is the biggest and most important center of airway transport in Romania, the internal traffic being achieved by the airport Bucharest - Baneasa (inaugurated in 1920), situated in the north of the city, on the Bucharest - Ploiesti highway. From its runways take off and land airplanes towards and from 15 cities of the country: Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara, Arad, Oradea, Baia Mare, Satu-Mare, Targu-Mures, Caransebes, Sibiu, Craiova, Suceava, Bacau, Iasi, Tulcea and Constanta. The international merchandise and passenger transport is provided only by Bucharest -Otopeni airport (inaugurated in 8 April 1970), placed at 18 kilometers north from the city's center, on the highway that goes to Ploiesti.
The most important touristic objectives of Bucharest municipality are: People's House (Parliament's Palace), The Romanian Athenaeum, The Triumph Arch, The National Bank's Palace, The Equestrian statue of Mihai Viteazu, The National Theatre, The University, The Cismigiu Park, The Botanical Garden, Herastrau Park, The Village Museum, The National Museum of Romania's Art, The National Museum of Romania's History, The Church of Casin Monastery.
The National Museum of Romanian History - Calea Victoriei no. 12, offers a comprehensive image of the society's development on the territory of Romania starting from ancient times until today. The National Museum of Romania's Art - Calea Victoriei no. 49-53, houses over 70,000 objects. The Museum of Art Collections - Calea Victoriei no. 111, houses creations of great artistic value signed by valuable great Romanian and foreign artists. The National Cotroceni Museum - St. Geniului no. 1, where are exposed collections of old Romanian art. The History and Art Museum of Bucharest Municipality - Bd. I.C.Bratianu no.2, is sheltered in Sutu Palace, containing about 150,000 exhibits that present the history of Bucharest's municipality from ancient times to the present. The Village Museum - Sos. Kiseleff no.28-30, established in 1936, is an ethnographical museum in the open, extended on 10 hectares, containing 272 buildings and peasant farms from all over the country. The National Geological Museum - Sos. Kiseleff no.2, exhibits impressive collections of mine flowers, mineralogy, paleontology, deposits, etcetera. The Natural History Museum "Grigore Antipa" - Sos. Kiseleff no.1, contains over 300,000 pieces. The Fireman's Museum - Bd. Ferdinand no.33/ Piata Foisorului de Foc , exhibits documents, maps, weapons, medals, flags. The Curtea Veche Museum - Voievodal Palace - St. Iuliu Maniu no.25-31, is a museum in the open that contains the ruins of the first hospodary residence of the hospodars of Romanian Country. The Technical Museum "Profesor inginer Dimitrie Leonida" - Candiano Popescu no.2 The Museum of the Romanian Peasant - Sos. Kiseleff no.3, contains about 90,000 pieces of popular Romanian art. The Museum of the Romanian Railways - Calea Grivitei no. 193, exhibits in the open engines, wagons, and in the interior has a Morse telegraph dated 1869, pictures, Romanian railway man costumes. The Museum of Romanian Literature - St. Fundatiei no.4, owns valuable manuscript and old book collections. The Museum "George Enescu" - Calea Victoriei no.141, organized in the Cantacuzino - Nababul Palace, contains collections referred to the music's history, musical documents, scores. The Museum of the National Theatre - Bd. Nicolae Balcescu no.2-4, illustrates through its collections the evolution of the Romanian theatre from its beginning to the present time. The "Theodor Aman" Museum - St. C.A. Rosetti no.8 The Memorial Museum "Gheorghe M. Tatarascu" - St. Domnita Anastasia no.7
Alba Church (Calea Victoriei no.110), Antim Church (St. Mitropolit Antim Ivireanu no.29), Armeneasca Church (Bd. Carol 1 no.43), Coltei Church (Bd. I.C. Bratianu no.1), Curtea Veche Church (St. Franceza no.33), Italiana Church (Bd. Nicolae Balcescu no.28), Cretulescu Church (Calea Victoriei no. 45 A), Stavropoleos Church (St. Stavropoleos no.4), Patriarhala Cathedral (Dealul Mitropoliei no.21), Sf. Iosif Cathedral (St. G-ral Berthelot no.15), Luterana Church (St. Luterana no.2), Amzei Church (St.Biserica Amzei no.2), Icoanei Church (St. Icoanei no.12), Boteanu Church (St. Boteanu no.8), Zlatari Church (Calea Victoriei no.12 bis), Greaca Church (Bd. Pache Protopopescu no.1-3), Silvestru Church (St. Silvestru no.36), Bucur Church (St. Radu Voda no.33), Domnita Balasa Church (St. Sfintii Apostoli no.60), Elefterie Church (St. Sfantul Elefterie no.1), Casin Church (Bd. Marasti no.16), Sfintii Apostoli Church (St. Sfintii Apostoli no.1).
Monumente de arhitectura - Architecture monuments - Monuments d'architecture - Baudenkmaler The Romanian Academy -125, Calea Victoriei Street, The Triumph Arch - The" Arcul de Triumf" Place, The Romanian Athenaeum - 1, Franklin Street, The National Military Debating Society - 1, Constantin Mille Street, The C.E.C. Palace - 11, Calea Victoriei Street, The "Hanu lui Manuc" Restaurant - 62-64 Franceza Street, The Royal Palace - Piata Revolutiei, Parliament's Palace (People's House) - 1, Calea 13 Septembrie Street, The "Caru cu bere" Reastaurant - 3, Stavropoleos Street, The National Bank - 8, Doamnei Street, The Institute of Architecture - 18, Academiei Street, The Bucharest's University - 2-4, Regina Elisabeta Boulevard, The Bucharest's City Hall - 47, Regina Elisabeta Boulevard, Cotroceni Palace - 1, Geniului Boulevard, The Romanian Opera - 50, Mihail Kogalniceanu Boulevard, The Military Academy - 68-72, Panduri Street, Foisorul de Foc -33, Ferdinand Boulevard. 1. The People's House or Parliament's Palace
2. The Romanian Athenaeum
3. The House "Capsa"
4. The Triumph Arch
5. The National Bank's Palace With the front side towards Lipscani, it's a large building, of symmetrical plane and sober architecture, built between 1884 (12th of July) and 1890 after the plans of the French architects Albert Galleron and Cassien Bernard, in neoclassical French style on the place of the khan of Serban Voda. The front of the building, from Lipscani Street, is praised by four Corinthic columns and the corner pavilions are each ornamented with four Corinthic columns in Ionic style, which have between them a niche with the allegorical statues representing "The Agriculture" and "The Justice", made by the sculptor Ion Georgescu, as well as "The Trade" and "The Industry" made by Stefan-Ionescu-Valbudea. 6. The Equestrian Statue of Mihai Viteazul
Situated in the Capital's center, limited by the boulevards Mihail Kogalniceanu (to the south) and Schitu Magureanu (to the west) and the streets Stirbei Voda (to the north) and Brezoianu (to the east), is the oldest and most beautiful park in Bucharest, extended on 17 hectares, on the place where it was a grove (at the beginning of the 19th century) with a lake formed by the natural springs situated at the base of the terrace from the street Stirbei Voda. This lake surrounded by reeds and bulrush, rich in fish at that time, appears mentioned documentary, at the time of Matei Basarab's reign, with the name "The swamp of Dura the merchant" and has had much bigger proportions. On 10 October 1779, Alexandru Ipsilanti, the hospodar of the Romanian Country, has ordered the construction of two water pumps in Bucharest to have drinking water, one of these being constructed in the place of the present gardens, towards the street Stirbei Voda. Close to this pump, Dumitru Suiulgi-Basa, named by the people "marele cismigiu" has built his house (because he was the chief of the supervision works of water flow and chief of water pumps), from where proceeds the name of the park officially inaugurated in 1854. 8. The Herastrau Park (187 hectares) Situated on both the banks of the Herastrau Lake, between the Aviatorilor Boulevard , the C. Prezan Boulevard, the Kiseleff Street, the Bucharest - Ploiesti Highway, the Baneasa Highway and the North Highway, is one of the most beautiful parks in Bucharest, arranged in the period 1936 - 1939 with the occasion of the "Luna Bucurestilor" exposition. In the park's precincts was situated the Village Museum, a pleasure ground for children, "Elisabeta" Palace, a landing place for small ships and boats, fields and sportive bases, "ExpoFlora", restaurants and many busts (Mihai Eminescu, I.L. Caragiale a.s.o.). 9. The Botanical Garden (18 hectares) Set up in 1855 by
the doctor Carol Davila next to the Medicine and Pharmaceutics School,
was partially arranged between 1860 and 1866, in the garden of the past
Cotroceni monastery, after the indications of Ulrich Hoffmann - manager
of the public gardens in that period. In 1874-1878 the Botanical Garden
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It's
a building of great proportions, extended on an area of 64,800 square
meters - the second building in the world after the Pentagon's building
in Washington. Built between 1984 and 1989 on Uranus Hill, after the plans
of a Romanian collective of architects, coordinated by the architect Anca
Petrescu, this stately building has a rectangular shape, with sides of
270 meters in front and respectively 240 meters on the sides, a height
of 84 meters and a depth, under the 0 elevation, that descends to 92 meters.
The areas of the 440 offices, of the many conference and meeting halls
(from which three halls are between 1,000 and 1,500 square meters each,
two halls of over 2,000 square meters each, two meeting halls with a capacity
of 1,200 seats and respectively 850 seats) totalize 265,000 square meters.
from the point of view of the constructed volume, People's House occupies
the third place in the world (with 2.55 million cubic meters ) after the
building from Cape Canaveral (U.S.A) where cosmic rockets are mounted
(with 3.67 million cubic meters) and the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl (3.3
million cubic meters) from Mexico.
It's
one of the most representative buildings of the Capital, with value of
a symbol, built between 1886 and 1888 (inaugurated on 14/26 February 1888),
after the plans of the French architect Albert Galleron, helped by the
Romanian architect Constantin Baicoianu, to the initiative of an intellectual
group, eager to endow Bucharest with a roomy hall, destined to musical
manifestations of high artistic carriage. The founds have been gathered
by public subscription as answer to the famous appeal "give a leu
for the Athenaeum". The Romanian Athenaeum, with the front side in
neoclassical style and with a big cupola, of baroque structure, has the
aspect of a ionic temple with six frontal columns and two lateral ones.
The big concert hall, with a diameter of 28.50 meters and a height of
16 meters, has a capacity of 1,000 seats and a good acoustics, being decorated
with a fresco where are surprised the principal moments of Romanian history
- opera of the painter Costin Petrescu. 
Situated
opposite to the National Military Debating Society, on Calea Victoriei,
corner with the Edgar Quinet Street, is an old building (1852), modest,
with one floor, belonging initially to Slatineanu and which, in 1874,
got into the possession of the famous confectioner Grigore Capsa (former
disciple of Boissier from Paris); he transformed the building in a confectionery,
coffee house, restaurant and hotel, constituting for a long period of
time, the meeting place of some Bucharest personalities (politicians,
writers, newspapermen, etc.).
The
first triumph arch was built in a hurry, in 1878, for the parade of the
troops returning from the independence war. Because it was built out of
light materials, it has been deteriorated after a while. A new Provisional
construction was occasioned by the parade of 1922 of the Romanian troops
participant in the first world war, for the implementation of the unitary
national statute. Reconstructed out of rock, in 1935-1936, after the plans
of the architect Petre Antonescu, the monument has a classical appearance,
being covered with sculptures in rock and inscriptions realized by Ion
Jalea, Cornel Medrea and Constantin Baraschi.
Situated
on the Mihail Kogalniceanu Boulevard, opposite to the University, is the
first monument of this type uncovered in the Capital, in 1876. Opera made
of bronze by the French sculptor Albert Ernest Carriere de Belleuse, the
equestrian statue, 2.5 meters high, represents the voivode Mihai Viteazul
with his legs supported by the spurs, holding in the right hand the horse's
bridles, and in the left hand holding the battle sword, slightly raised
to the back, suggesting the calling to the battle addressed to his armies.
On the head wears his famous fur cap with plume and tied at his left hip
is the sward's sheath. The horse is in a moving position, with its head
strained in the rein, the left front leg lifted and the tail "waving".
