Romania.Romania.Take a Look!
First of all where is "Romania".Good Question.
Take a look in the map.
Map of romania
Location: Southeastern Europe
Area: 237,499 sq. km
Land: 230,340 sq. km (13th in Europe)
Neighbors: Moldavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Ukraine.
Coastline: Black Sea
Population: 22.7 million (10th in Europe)
Capital City: Bucharest 2.06 million
Government: Republic
Literacy Rate: 96%
Relief: mountains, hills, plains, meadows and delta
National Day: December 1.
Bucharest is the capital city of Romania with many parks and
gardens, gathering together a wide range of architectural styles
and surrounded by lakes and forests.
Bucharest:Ceausescu's Parliament's Palace
The new seat of the Parliament is an imposing building, extending over 64,800 sq.m. Raised between 1984 and 1989 on the Uranus Hill (also called the Arsenal Hill) according to the plans of a group of Romanian architects coordinated by Anca Petrescu, the edifice is rectangularly shaped, its façade having 270 m. Its height is of 84 m, and it goes 92 m under ground. The 440 offices, the dozens of reception halls, the halls destined to scientific, cultural and socio-political events (out of which 20 halls have each an area between 200 and 700 sq.m.) and the dozens of conference and assembly halls (3 halls have between 1,000 and 1,500 sq.m.), rank this edifice as the second in the world
after the Pentagon bulding in Washington, D.C. (604,000 sq.m., larger than the Pyramid of Keops).In point of volume (2.55 mill. cu.m.), the People's House is the third in the world, after the building of Cape Canaveral where the spaceships are assemblied (3.67 mill. cu.m.), and the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl in Mexico (3.3 mill. cu.m.).
The offices belong to certain State Institutions and to the Parliament, while the conference halls, luxurious and modernly equipped, represent the ideal place for holding international meetings, concerts and musical festivals.
Back view
From a different angle
Night View
The Triumphal Arch
The Triumphal Arch was built in 1922 from wood and it was rebuild over
between 1935-1936 in concrete and granite.The monument is in honor of the heroism of
the Romanian army demonstrated during World War I. Only 3 places in the
world exist such an arch.
The Roman Anthenaeum in Bucharest.
Free Press House
Large building constructed in neo-stalinism style, housing many news agencies and
publishing houses. In front of the building stood a statue of Lenin,
dumped on the Mogosoaia estate in 1989.
The Medical College (1903)
The Medical University was created in 1857 as The National School of Medicine and Surgery, by Carol Davila, founder of the medical services in Romania. The name of University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" was adapted after December 1989. The honorary president of the University is George Emil Palade, the Nobel Prize winner.
The National Theatre (1973-1984)
The Opera House (1954)
The Opera House opened in 1954 with a capacity of 1200 seats. A classic
repertoire including Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Enescu
is maintained at the Opera House.
The Bucharest University
The Bucharest University was built between 1857-1869. The University was founded in 1864, continuing the 17th century St. Sava Royal Academy, and the Technical Institute of Bucharest founded in 1819. Today are more than 55 faculties in Bucharest.
The Unirii Square
Many buildings were destroyed in order to build the road that provided a view to the
Palace of Parliament.The building began in 1984. The Palace of Parliament (People's
House) is 270 m lenght, 240 m width, 84 m height and is decorated with marble and is
the second largest building in the world.
Iasi or "Jassy" in English. City,where I live in Romania.
It would be wrong to think that the cradle of Romanian culture is just Bucharest. The generous ideas of the revolutionary Europe, that is, the germ of the continent's modernity arrived in the 19th century Moldavia. Iasi.
The British Council and the Central Library.
5 minutes walk from my house.
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