Bucharest

Bucharest
Date(s): November 24-25, 2012. Album by David Clement. 1 - 25 of 25 Total. 29 Visits.

1 Piața Unirii viewed from my hotel room	2 Biserica Sfantul Anton from the balcony of my room	3 my hotel - out for a walk around the very busy city centre on Saturday night	4 Monument to the Heroes of the Air
5 Arcul de Triumf	6 Herăstrău Park	7 random Michael Jackson monument in Herăstrău Park	8 man-made lake
9 Shakespeare monument - there were many monuments in this area dedicated to famous foreigners	10 de Gaulle statue - France and Romania have a long-standing diplomatic connection	11 Palace of the Parliament - construction began in 1983 for Ceauşescu	12 Antim Monastery - built between 1713 and 1715; there are monks still living here
13 Carol Park	14 Mausoleum constructed for Communists, but they were exhumed in 1991 and replaced with World War I soldiers	15 eternal flame for Unknown Soldier	16 looking back at Carol Park from the Mausoleum
17 2nd largest building in the world (and 3rd by volume)	18 looking out at Constitution Square from the terrace of the Palace of the Parliament	19 CEC Palace	20 Stavropoleos Monastery
21 looks kind of Moorish I think	22 Memorial of Rebirth - commemorates the struggles and victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989	23	24 Central University Library with King Carol I statue - he was the ruler of Romania from 1866 to 1914
25 Romanian Athenaeum

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