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Bucharest suffered significant damage due to Allied bombing during World War II and the devastating earthquake of March 4, 1977.However, neither of these events changed the face of the city more than the Ceaușescan "redevelopment schemes" of the 1980s, under which an overall area of 5.9 square kilometres (2.3 sq mi) of the historic center of Bucharest was affected, [2] including monasteries ...
As part of the project, Bulevardul Unirii was to be Communist Romania's answer to Paris's Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Construction began on June 25, 1984. [1] Initially called Bulevardul Victoria Socialismului (Victory of Socialism Boulevard), the road is lined with apartment blocks and various public buildings of socialist-realism inspiration ...
The square is standing face-to-face with the Palace of the Parliament (biggest building in Europe) and it is bisected by Bulevardul Unirii (Union Boulevard) and by Bulevardul Libertății (Liberty Boulevard). [1] The square is one of the best places to organize concerts and parades of Bucharest.
The square during the interwar period. In the left: the Sturdza Palace (1898-1901) by Iulius Reinicke, [1] on the right: the Building of the Public Officials Association (1900) by Nicolae Mihăescu [2] Victory Square after WW2 bombardments, during the Communist period A TR-85 tank in Victory Square during the Romanian Revolution of December 1989
Calea Moșilor was the first street paved with cobblestones in Wallachia in 1825. [2] Slowly all the streets in Bucharest took the same turn and wooden "bridges" were forgotten for good. Between 1978 and 1982 the old historic streets between Carol I Boulevard and Obor were demolished and replaced with 8 to 10 stories tall apartment blocks , and ...
Bulevardul Lascăr Catargiu is a major thoroughfare in Sector 1 of Bucharest, Romania, linking Victory Square with Piața Romană. Originally, the boulevard was part of Strada Colței, a longer road that also included today's Magheru , Nicolae Bălcescu , and Ion C. Brătianu Boulevards.
The National Library of Romania (Romanian: Biblioteca Națională a României) is the national library of Romania, located at 22 Unirii Boulevard in central Bucharest. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in Romania. The construction cost was €110 million. [1]
The road was created in 1832 by Pavel Kiselyov, the commander of the Russian occupation troops in Wallachia and Moldavia.The name was converted from Kiselyov to Kiseleff, using the French transliteration of Russian names at the time.