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About Bucharest
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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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Romanian Athenaeum
Local name: "Ateneul Roman"
Local phonetic: [Ah`teh`neh`ool - Roh`mihn]
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1 Franklin Str., Bucharest
State of Bucharest, Romania
A traveller who knows Bucharest only from the classic tourist brochures surely has one image engraved in his mind: the Romanian Atheneum, a symbol of the city as far back as its 1888 inauguration. The first concert of the Bucharest Philharmonic Orchestra took place on March 5, 1889, under the Atheneum's dome. Between the two Wars, the hall was embellished with a superb fresco, and at George Enescu's suggestion, was endowed with an organ. Founded in 1868, at the initiative of a group of musicians, in order to cultivate the taste of the public for symphonic music, the Romanian Philharmonic Society offered classical and romantic masterpiece concerts.
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