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Grădina Icoanei is a small park in central Bucharest, situated not far away from Piața Romană and Bulevardul Magheru. The park, located next to Gheorghe Cantacuzino Plaza in Sector 2 of the city, was inaugurated in 1873.
Sala Palatului in Bucharest, Romania is a conference centre and concert hall immediately behind the National Museum of Art of Romania, the former royal palace in the heart of the city. It was built between 1959 and 1960, during the communist era, as part of an architectural ensemble that includes 9 other buildings, called Piața Sălii Palatului. Over time, it has hosted various conferences such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, World Population Conference, World Energy Congress, or the World Congress of the Red Cross.
3. National Museum of Contemporary Art
The National Museum of Contemporary Art is a contemporary art museum in Bucharest, Romania. The museum is located in a new glass wing of the Palace of the Parliament, one of the largest administrative buildings in the world.
Wikipedia: National Museum of Contemporary Art (Romania) (EN)
4. Romanian Atheneum
The Romanian Athenaeum is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania, and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's most prestigious concert hall and home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and of the George Enescu Festival.
5. Royal Palace
The Royal Palace of Bucharest, known as Palace of the Republic between 1948 and 1990, is a monumental building situated in the capital of Romania, on Calea Victoriei. The palace in its various incarnations served as official residence for the kings of Romania until 1947, when the communist regime was installed after Michael I of Romania's forced abdication. Since 1950, the palace hosts the National Museum of Art of Romania. The Romanian royal family currently uses Elisabeta Palace as its official residence in Bucharest. In addition, the Romanian government allows the royal family to use the Royal Palace different occasions.
6. Piața Unirii
Piața Unirii is one of the largest squares in central Bucharest, Romania, located in the center of the city where Sectors 1, 2, 3, and 4 meet. Part of the Civic Centre, it is bisected by Unirii Boulevard, originally built during the Communist era as the Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism, and renamed after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
7. Mihai Eminescu
Mihai Eminescu was a Romanian Romantic poet from Moldavia, novelist, and journalist, generally regarded as the most famous and influential Romanian poet. Eminescu was an active member of the Junimea literary society and worked as an editor for the newspaper Timpul, the official newspaper of the Conservative Party (1880–1918). His poetry was first published when he was 16 and he went to Vienna, Austria to study when he was 19. The poet's manuscripts, containing 46 volumes and approximately 14,000 pages, were offered by Titu Maiorescu as a gift to the Romanian Academy during the meeting that was held on 25 January 1902. Notable works include Luceafărul, Odă în metru antic, and the five Letters (Epistles/Satires). In his poems, he frequently used metaphysical, mythological and historical subjects.
8. Michael the Brave
Michael the Brave, born as Mihai Pătrașcu, was the Prince of Wallachia, Prince of Moldavia (1600) and de facto ruler of Transylvania (1599–1600). He is considered one of Romania's greatest national heroes. Since the 19th century, Michael the Brave has been regarded by Romanian nationalists as a symbol of Romanian unity, as his reign marked the first time all principalities inhabited by Romanians were under the same ruler.
9. Ion Heliade Rădulescu
Ion Heliade Rădulescu or Ion Heliade was a Wallachian, later Romanian academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician. A prolific translator of foreign literature into Romanian, he was also the author of books on linguistics and history. For much of his life, Heliade Rădulescu was a teacher at Saint Sava College in Bucharest, which he helped reopen. He was a founding member and first president of the Romanian Academy.
10. Politehnica University of Bucharest
Politehnica University of Bucharest is a technical university in Bucharest, Romania. 200 years of activity have been celebrated lately, as the university was founded in 1818. Politehnica University is classified by the Ministry of Education as an advanced research and education university.
11. National Museum of Art of Romania
The National Museum of Art of Romania is located in the Royal Palace in Revolution Square, central Bucharest. It features collections of medieval and modern Romanian art, as well as the international collection assembled by the Romanian royal family.
12. Triumphal Arch
Arcul de Triumf is a triumphal arch located on the Kiseleff Road, in the northern part of Bucharest, Romania. The monument, designed by Petre Antonescu, was built in 1921–22, renovated in 1935–36, and renovated again starting in 2014. It commemorates Romania's victory in the First World War and the coronation of King Ferdinand and his wife Marie.
13. Cișmigiu Gardens
The Cișmigiu Gardens or Cișmigiu Park are a public park in the center of Bucharest, Romania, spanning areas on all sides of an artificial lake. The gardens' creation was an important moment in the history of Bucharest. They form the oldest and, at 14.6 hectares, the largest park in city's central area.
14. Carol Park
Carol I Park is a public park in Bucharest, Romania, named after King Carol I of Romania. A French garden located in the southern-central area of Bucharest, partly on Filaret Hill, originally capable of hosting various exhibitions, it suffered considerable modifications during the communist regime, including a name change to Parcul Libertății.
15. Moara lui Assan (1853)
Assan's mill, built in 1853, is the first steam mill in Romania. The mill is located in Bucharest, in the Obor-Lizeanu area. Currently, it is in an advanced stage of degradation. Assan's mill is classified in the records of the Ministry of Culture and Cults as a historical monument of national value and is part of the industrial heritage.
16. Biserica Mănăstirii Stavropoleos
Stavropoleos Monastery, also known as Stavropoleos Church during the last century when the monastery was dissolved, is an Eastern Orthodox monastery for nuns in central Bucharest, Romania. Its church is built in Brâncovenesc style. The patrons of the church are St. Archangels Michael and Gabriel. The name Stavropoleos is the genitive case of Stavropolis. One of the monastery's constant interests is Byzantine music, expressed through its choir and the largest collection of Byzantine music books in Romania.
17. Biserica Sfânta Fecioară Maria Regină din Cioplea
The church "Holy Virgin Mary, Queen" from Cioplea is a Roman Catholic church located in the former Cioplea neighborhood in Bucharest, demolished during the systematizations of the 1980s. The place is located on Râmnicu Sărat no. 3-5, sector 3. The church is also called Cioplea, after the name of the former neighborhood, and has its own cemetery.
18. National Theatre Bucharest Museum
Luca Ion Caragiale, also known as Luki, Luchi or Luky Caragiale, was a Romanian poet, novelist and translator, whose contributions were a synthesis of Symbolism, Parnassianism and modernist literature. His career, cut short by pneumonia, mostly produced lyric poetry with cosmopolitan characteristics, distinct preferences for neologisms and archaisms, and willing treatment of kitsch as a poetic subject. These subjects were explored in various poetic forms, ranging from the conventionalism of formes fixes, some of which were by then obsolete, to the rebellious adoption of free verse. His poetry earned posthumous critical attention and was ultimately collected in a 1972 edition, but sparked debates among literary historians about the author's contextual importance.
19. The Jewish Theatre
Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat in Bucharest, Romania is a theater specializing in Jewish-related plays. It is the oldest Yiddish-language theater with uninterrupted activity in the world. Its contemporary repertoire includes plays by Jewish authors, plays on Jewish topics, and plays in Yiddish. Many of the plays also feature Jewish actors.
20. Palatul Elisabeta
Elisabeta Palace is a palace on Kiseleff Road in Bucharest, Romania. Built in 1936, it is the official residence in Romania of Margareta of Romania, her husband Prince Radu, and her sister Princess Maria.
21. Memorial of Rebirth
The Memorial of Rebirth is a memorial in Bucharest, Romania that commemorates the struggles and victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which overthrew Communism. The memorial complex was inaugurated in August 2005 in Revolution Square, where Romania's Communist-era dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu, was publicly overthrown in December 1989.
22. The Old Court Princely Palace
Curtea Veche was built as a palace or residence during the rule of Vlad III Dracula in 1459. Archaeological excavations started in 1953, and now the site is operated by the Muzeul Municipiului București in the historic centre of Bucharest, Romania.
23. National Museum of the Romanian Peasant
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant is a museum in Bucharest, Romania, with a collection of textiles, icons, ceramics, and other artifacts of Romanian peasant life. One of Europe's leading museums of popular arts and traditions, it was designated "European Museum of the Year" for 1996.
24. Carol Park Mausoleum
The Mausoleum in Carol Park, called during the communist regime the Monument of the Heroes of the Struggle for the Freedom of the People and the Fatherland, for Socialism, is a monument located in Carol I Park, sector 4 of Bucharest, on the Filaret Hill.
25. Catedrala Patriarhală Sfinții Împărați Constantin și Elena
The Romanian Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral is a functioning religious and civic landmark, on Dealul Mitropoliei, in Bucharest, Romania. It is located near the Palace of the Chamber of Deputies of the Patriarchate of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Since it is a working cathedral, it is the site of many religious holidays and observances that take place for those who follow the Orthodox Christian faith in Bucharest, including a Palm Sunday pilgrimage. The Orthodox Divine Liturgy at the cathedral is known for its a cappella choir, a common practice shared by all the Orthodox churches, in both their prayer services and liturgical rites. The Romanian Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral is a designated Historical monument—Monument istoric of Romania.
26. Biserica Sfântul Nicolae - Ghica
St. Nicholas Russian Church is located in central Bucharest, Romania, just off University Square. Russian Ambassador Mikhail Nikolaevich Giers initiated the building of a Russian Orthodox church in central Bucharest in 1905. It was meant mainly for the use of the legation employees, as well as for Russians living in the capital city of the Kingdom of Romania.
27. Monumentul Eroilor Aerului
The Monument to the Heroes of the Air, located in the Aviators' Square, on Aviators' Boulevard, Bucharest, Romania, was built between 1930 and 1935 by sculptors Lidia Kotzebue (1885–1944), and by Iosif Fekete. The structure, 20 m (65.6 ft) high, is made up of bronze sculptures resting on an obelisk-shaped stone pedestal, which in turn stands atop four trapezoidal prisms linked to each other by arcs. Beneath this entire complex is a circular stone base.
28. Templul Coral
The Choral Temple is a synagogue located in Bucharest, Romania. Designed by Enderle and Freiwald and built between 1864 and 1866, it is a very close copy of Vienna's Leopoldstadt-Tempelgasse Great Synagogue, which had been built in 1855–1858. The synagogue was devastated by the far-right Legionaries in January 1941, but was then restored after World War II, in 1945. The main hall was recently refurbished, and re-opened in 2015. The synagogue is still hosts daily religious services in the small hall, being one of the few active synagogues in the city and in Romania.
29. Grigore Antipa Natural History National Museum
The Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum, located in Bucharest, Romania. It was originally established as the National Museum of Natural History on 3 November 1834. It was renamed in 1933 after Grigore Antipa, who administered the museum for 51 years. He is the scientist who reorganized the museum in the new building, designed by the architect Grigore Cerchez and inaugurated by Carol I of Romania in 1908. It was reopened in 2011 after a $14 million renovation. The museum’s collection consists of over 2 million specimens. It is regarded as one of the most prestigious and well organized natural history museums in the world.
Wikipedia: Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History (EN), Website
30. Biserica Ortodoxă Crețulescu
Kretzulescu Church is an Eastern Orthodox church in central Bucharest, Romania. Built in the Brâncovenesc style, it is located on Calea Victoriei, nr. 45A, at one of the corners of Revolution Square, next to the former Royal Palace.
31. Cathedral of Saint Basil the Great
Saint Basil the Great Cathedral, located at 50 Polonă street, is the first Romanian Greek-Catholic church built in Bucharest. The church's patron is Basil of Caesarea and its dedication celebration is on January 1.
32. Palatul Nunțiaturii Apostolice a Sfântului Scaun din București
The Palace of the Apostolic Nunciature of the Holy See in Bucharest, inaugurated in 1901, is located on Pictor Constantin Stahi Street no. 5-7 and is the seat of the Apostolic Nunciature in Romania. The building is registered in the List of Historical Monuments in Bucharest, sector 1, under the code LMI B-II-m-A-19725.
Wikipedia: Palatul Nunțiaturii Apostolice a Sfântului Scaun din București (RO)
33. Dealul Mitropoliei
Dealul Mitropoliei, also called Dealul Patriarhiei, is a small hill in Bucharest, Romania and an important historic, cultural, architectural, religious and touristic point in the national capital. From a religious point of view, it is one of the centres of Romanian Orthodoxy: the headquarters of the Romanian Patriarchate and the residence of the Patriarch are both located here.
34. Primăria Municipiului București
The Palace of the Ministry of Public Works is a building in Bucharest, built between 1906 and 1910, in the traditional Neo-Romanian style, according to the plans of the architect Petre Antonescu, on the vacant land located opposite the Cismigiu Garden, called "Duca's Maidan".
35. Catedrala romano-catolică Sfântul Iosif
Saint Joseph Cathedral is a historical and architectural monument located in Bucharest, Romania, at 19 General Berthelot Street. It is the main place of worship which serves as cathedral of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Bucharest.
36. Biserica Ortodoxă „Sfântul Spiridon Nou”
The Saint Spyridon the New Church is a Romanian Orthodox church in Bucharest, Romania on Calea Șerban Vodă, no. 29. Originally built with gothic influences in 1852–1858, it was strongly modified by Patriarch Justinian.
37. Teatrul Bulandra
The Bulandra Theatre in Bucharest, Romania was founded in 1947 as Teatrul Municipal; its first director was Lucia Sturdza-Bulandra, one of the leading Romanian stage actresses of her generation. Liviu Ciulei was director between 1963 and 1972; one of the most important directors since then was Ștefan Iordănescu (1999–2002), who restructured the theatre management. From 2002 until his death in 2019, the theatre was directed by Alexandru Darie; as of 2020, the director is Vlad Zamfirescu.
38. Parcul Circului
The State Circus Park is a park in Bucharest, sector 2, inside it is located the state circus in Bucharest. The park was arranged in 1961, on an area 26 ha, according to the plans of the architect Valentin Donose.
39. Mănăstirea Ortodoxă „Chiajna - Giulești”
Chiajna Monastery is the name of a ruined church situated on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania which is the subject of many legends, including the story that it is cursed. The information centre, Giulești Park, is devoted to the upkeep and protection of the building, which is a national heritage site.
40. Arhivele Naționale
The National Archives of Romania, until 1996 the State Archives, are the national archives of Romania, headquartered in Bucharest. It is subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There are 42 regional branches, one in each county of Romania and one in Bucharest.
41. Art Collections Museum
The Museum of Art Collections is a branch of the National Museum of Art of Romania and is situated in Bucharest. It is located on Calea Victoriei no.111 at the corner of Calea Griviței, in Romanit Palace, the first section of which was built in 1822.
42. Yeshua Tova Synagogue
The Yeshua Tova Synagogue in Bucharest, Romania, is the city's oldest synagogue, serving the local Chabad Jewish community. The Rabbi there is the head Chabad emissary of Romania, Rabbi Naftali Deutsch serves as a Chabad emissary for 23 years
43. Theodor Pallady Museum
The Theodor Pallady Museum is a museum located at 22 Spătarului Street in Bucharest, Romania. Situated in one of the oldest surviving merchant houses in the city, it includes many works by the well-known Romanian painter Theodor Pallady, as well as a number of European and Oriental furniture pieces. Built in the second half of the 18th century, the house is named after its most illustrious owner, Iacob Melic.
44. Ion Luca Caragiale
A statue of Ion Luca Caragiale, sculpted by Constantin Baraschi, is located on Maria Rosetti Street in central Bucharest, Romania. It is placed in front of the house where the dramatist and short story writer Ion Luca Caragiale once lived.
45. Bucharest Zoo
Zoo Băneasa is a zoo in Bucharest, Romania, located in a northern district of the city, called Băneasa. The park was founded in 1955 as a service of the Municipal Household Section of the People's Council of the Capital.
46. Maria and Dr. George Severeanu Collection
The George Severeanu Museum is a museum and historical monument in Bucharest, on Henri Coandă Street no. 26, sector 1, in a house dating back to around 1860. The museum is housed in the house that belonged to radiologist George Severeanu and his wife, Maria. The museum exhibits the numismatic and antiquities collection of the Severeanu spouses, which includes prehistoric, ancient Egyptian artifacts, Greek and Etruscan vessels, Tanagra statuettes, Roman glassware and jewelry, İznik ceramics, medieval documents, many coins (numismatics), and others.
47. Carol Davila
The statue of Dr. Carol Davila, the work of the sculptor Carol Storck, is located in the courtyard in front of the main entrance of the Palace of the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest. It is inscribed in the List of Historical Monuments in Bucharest, sector 5 with code LMI B-III-m-B-19981 and is located at the address Eroii Sanitari Boulevard no. 8, sector 5, Bucharest municipality.
48. Mănăstirea Mihai Vodă
The Mihai Vodă Monastery, founded by Mihai Viteazul, is one of the oldest buildings in Bucharest. It was built in 1591, surrounded by stone walls, similar to a fortress. The monastery buildings served multiple purposes over time such as residence of the country's leaders, military hospital, medical school and the site of the National Archives of Romania. The monastery was an important archeological site; inside the monastery yard used to be a Dacian archeological site, more than 3000 years old, where old pottery and other relics were found.
49. Prof. Eng. Dimitrie Leonida National Technological Museum
The Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum was founded in 1909 by Dimitrie Leonida, inspired by the München Technical Museum, he had visited during his studies in Charlottenburg Polytechnic Institute. In 1908, with the help of the first promotions of mechanics and electricians from his school, the first in Romania, Leonida collected the first objects for the museum. What is different in the Leonida museum was the educational orientation of the museum and also the interactivity.
50. National Geological Museum
The National Geological Museum is located on Şoseaua Kiseleff (street), in Bucharest, Romania. It is located near Victory Square and Kiseleff Park, in central Bucharest. The museum was founded in 1892 and was re-established in 1990.
51. Biserica Mărcuța
Mărcuța Church is a Romanian Orthodox church in Bucharest, Romania on the east side of the Pantelimon district. Built in 1587, it is one of the oldest structures still in use today in Romania. In the past the church served the Mărcuța Monastery which was situated on the outskirts of the city.
52. Palatul Romanit
The Romanit Palace, the headquarters of the Museum of Art Collections, located on Calea Victoriei at number 111, is a representative building of Bucharest from the 19th century, raised by the boyar C. Faca, at the corner formed by Calea Victoriei with Calea Griviței.
53. Teatrul de vară Alhambra
The Capitol Summer Theater in Bucharest was built at the beginning of the twentieth century (1916) according to the plans of the architect Nicolae Nenciulescu. Originally called the "Alhambra Summer Theatre", it is classified as a historical monument.
54. Grozăvești Power Station
The Grozăvești Power Station is a large thermal power plant located at 229 Splaiul Independenței Street, Sector 6, Bucharest. It has 2 generation groups of 50 MW, each having a total electricity generation capacity of 100 MW.
55. Biserica Sfântul Gheorghe - Nou
New St. George Church is a Romanian Orthodox church located in Bucharest, Romania, along the city center's main north–south thoroughfare, where it intersects the Lipscani area. It is dedicated to Saint George. The church is associated with Constantin Brâncoveanu: it was built during his reign and he is buried inside.
56. Biserica Ortodoxă Boteanu-Ienii
Boteanu Church is an Orthodox church in Bucharest, sector 1. At this Church there is a part of the relics of St. John Jacob. The history of the church stretches back to 1682, when a lord named Mihul built a church dedicated to the "Cutting of the Head of Saint John the Baptist". The church is better known as "Bradu-Boteanu", because a tall fir tree grew next to the church and because the church was next to a slum called "Boteanului".
57. Avântul Țării
The Momentum of the Country Monument in Bucharest was made by the sculptor Emil Wilhelm Becker together with the architect Arghir Culina and inaugurated in 1921 on Calea Griviței, in the immediate vicinity of some military establishments, and after a while it was moved to Valter Mărăcineanu Square, in front of the then building of the Ministry of War, near the Cișmigiu Garden, where it is still found today.
58. National Museum of Maps and Rare Books
The National Museum of Maps and Old Books is a national museum in Bucharest, located in Str. Londra nr. 39, sector 1, established on April 4, 2003. Dana and Adrian Năstase contributed significantly to the creation of the map collection by donating hundreds of maps from their personal collection.
Wikipedia: Muzeul Național al Hărților și Cărții Vechi (RO), Website
59. Italian Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
The Italian Church of the Most Holy Redeemer is a Roman Catholic church located in Bucharest, Romania, at 28 Nicolae Bălcescu Boulevard. The Lombard Romanesque red brick edifice was built between 1915–1916 and consecrated by bishop Raymond Netzhammer in 1916. Owned by the Italian government, it is surrounded by apartment blocks. Services are held daily in Romanian at 6 PM, and on Sundays, in Polish at 9 AM, Romanian at 10 AM, Italian at 11 AM.
60. Capela Elisabeta Doamna
The Saint Elisabeth Chapel was founded by Queen Elisabeth who laid the foundation stone on April 24, 1870, inside the Elena Doamna Orphan Children's Asylum built by Elena Cuza based on the document signed on July 18, 1862 by her husband, Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza.
61. Biserica Sfântul Dumitru - Slobozia
Slobozia Church, dedicated to the Great Martyr St. Demetrius, is a Romanian Orthodox church in Bucharest's Sector 4, located at the intersection of Dimitrie Cantemir and Marășești Boulevards. Built by Radu Leon, its ctitor, between 1664 and 1667, the church was erected near a stone cross placed by Radu's father, Leon Tomșa.
62. Monumentul Eroilor C.F.R.
The monument of the Ceferi heroes of Bucharest is located in the North Station Square and is authored by the sculptors Corneliu Medrea and Ion Jalea. It was erected in memory of the Ceferists who fell in the First World War, and was unveiled in 1923.
63. Assan House
The Assan House, built in 1906-1914, is located in Bucharest in Lahovari Square no. 9, sector 1. It was commissioned by the engineer and industrialist Bazil G. Assan and built in the French neoclassical style by the Romanian architect Ion D. Berindey.
64. Monumentul Topogeodezilor Militari
The Monument of the Military Topogeodesists in Bucharest was inaugurated on November 16, 2009, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Romanian Military Topographic Service, whose traditions are continued by the Military Topographic Directorate. The monument is the work of the Buzau artist Valentin Tanase.
Wikipedia: Monumentul Topogeodezilor Militari din București (RO)
65. Alexandru Lahovary
The statue of Alexandru Lahovari in Bucharest was made of bronze by the French sculptor Marius Jean Antonin Mercier/Mercié (1845-1916) and was inaugurated on June 17, 1901 in Lahovari Square in Bucharest. During the communist period, Lahovari Square had been renamed first Kuibyshev Square and then Cosmonauts' Square.
Wikipedia: Statuia lui Alexandru Lahovari din București (RO)
66. The French Heroes Monument
The Monument of the French Heroes in Bucharest is a statuary group made of Carrara marble, dedicated, according to what is written bilingually on the pedestal, to the memory of the "French soldiers fallen on the field of honor of the Romanian land during the Great War 1916-1918" - "Aux soldats français tombés au champ d'honneur sur le sol roumain pendant la Grande Guerre 1916-1918".
67. Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino Fountain
The George Grigorie Cantacuzino Fountain in Carol I Park, Bucharest, is a monument built in 1870, in a neoclassical conception, on the initiative and at the expense of the mayor of Bucharest Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino, by the architect Al. Freiwald and the sculptor Karl Storck.
68. Biserica „Sfântul Anton - Curtea Veche”
The Curtea Veche Church is a Romanian Orthodox church located at 33 Franceză Street in the Lipscani quarter of Bucharest, Romania. It is dedicated to the Feast of the Annunciation and to Saint Anthony the Great.
69. Ana Davila
Ana Davila's monument is the work of the Romanian sculptor Karl Storck and his son, the sculptor Carol Storck, and was unveiled in 1890. The statue represents Ana Davila in folk costume. Next to her sits an orphaned and barefoot girl representing the generations of girls raised in the "Elena Doamna" Orphan's Asylum run by Ana Davila. Made of Carrara marble, the statue is placed on a stone pedestal raised on a three-step stone pedestal.
70. Monument to American Heroes
The American Heroes Monument in Cismigiu Park in Bucharest is dedicated to the 378 pilots and crew members of the US Air Force aircraft, who fell on duty on the territory of Romania during World War II, as well as to the American prisoners of war interned in camps on the territory of Romania.
71. Gheorghe Panu
The bust of Gheorghe Panu is the work of the Romanian sculptor Gheorghe Horvath. The monument is also called "The Sower of Ideas" and was erected by the newspaper "Adevărul" through public subscription.
72. 1906 fountain
The 1906 Fountain in Carol I Park, in Bucharest, is a monument made in Italian style, from various assortments of marble and granite. The construction has a height of 4.10 m and is made of stone extracted from several quarries in Romania.
73. Biserica Sfântul Elefterie Vechi
The Church of Saint Elefterie Vechi in Bucharest was built from the donation of Captain Constantin sin [= son of] Macsin the Cupețul, with the help and supervision of Metropolitan Neofit, between 1743 and 1744, during the reign of Mihai Racoviță. The place, located in sector 5 of Bucharest, is a historical monument.
74. National Cathedral of Romania
The Cathedral of the Nation's Salvation, with the main patron saint "The Ascension of the Lord" and the secondary patron saint "St. Andrew the Apostle", is the largest church in Romania and one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world. The foundation stone of the place of worship was laid in February 2011 and its completion date was expected to be at the end of 2018. The costs, until November 2018, amounted to 110 million euros and the winner of the tender for the design of the edifice is the Bacau company Vanel Exim.
Wikipedia: Catedrala Mântuirii Neamului Românesc (RO), Website
75. Dimitrie Brandza Botanic Garden
The "Dimitrie Brândză" Botanical Garden of the University of Bucharest, which bears its current name since 1994, is located in the Cotroceni district of Bucharest, Romania. It consists of an open-air exhibition divided into 12 sectors, two greenhouses and a museum, next to which there are also administrative buildings and a building of the Faculty of Biology of the University of Bucharest. It covers an area of 18.2 ha and has over 10,000 species of plants. The garden has a herbarium that counted about 520,000 pages in 2022.
76. Palatul Poștelor
The Post Office Palace is a monumental construction located in the old Historic Center of Bucharest, on Calea Victoriei no. 12, currently being the headquarters of the National Museum of Romanian History.
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