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About Bucharest
[Boo`koo`reshtie]
Bucharest is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania. It is located in the southeast of the country and lies on the banks of the Dambovita River. It was originally known as Dambovita citadel. In the period between the two World Wars, the city's elegant architecture and the sophistication of its elite earned Bucharest the nickname of the "Paris of the East" or "Little Paris".
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House of the Free Press
Local name: "Casa Presei Libere"
Local phonetic: [Cah`sah - Preh`sey - Lee`beh`reh]
Photo courtesy of Bogdan Giusca (GNU)
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Piata Scanteii, Bucharest
State of Bucharest, Romania
House of the Free Press construction began in 1952 and was completed in 1957. The building was named Combinatul Poligrafic Casa Scinteii "I.V.Stalin" and later Casa Scinteii. It is the highest building in the city of Bucharest.
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Palace of the Parliament
Local name: "Palatul Parlamentului"
Local phonetic: [Pah`lah`tool - Pahr`lah`mehn`too`louie]
Photo courtesy of Roman Klementschitz (GNU)
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Dealul Arsenalului, Bucharest
State of Bucharest, Romania
The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is one of the world's largest buildings. Its original name was the House of the People (Casa Poporului [Cah`sah - Poh`poh`roo`louie]), but it was renamed (in the post-Communist era) first during the 1989 Revolution with the derogatory name of House of Ceausescu and then as the Palace of the Parliament. The structure combines elements and motifs from multiple sources, in an eclectic postmodernist architectural style. Edward Behr (food specialist who became famous by authoring The Artful Eater) wrote that "the combination of cultural and aesthetic illiteracy, rigid Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy and an innate taste for gigantism was devastating" for the architecture of the edifice.
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Victory Arch
Local name: "Arcul de Triumf"
Local phonetic: [Ahr`kool - deh - Tree`woomf]
Photo courtesy of Roman Klementschitz (GNU)
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Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest
State of Bucharest, Romania
The first, wooden, triumphal arch was built hurriedly, after Romania gained its independence (1878), so that the victorious troops could march under it. Another temporary arch was built on the same site, in 1922, after World War I, which was demolished in 1935 to make way for the current triumphal arch, which was inaugurated in September 1936. The current arch has a height of 27 meters and was built after the plans of the architect Petre Antonescu. It has as foundation a 25 x 11.50 meters rectangle. The sculptures with which the facades are decorated were created by famous Romanian sculptors such as Ion Jalea and Dimitrie Paciurea.
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