Bucharest: relatively old town

  1. Pigeon is a bird, too!
  2. Kinda brutal.
  3. Outstanding poet Mihai Eminescu near the Romanian Athenaeum Concert Hall, completed a year before his sad passing.
  4. The first king of Romania Carol I in front of Central University Library named after him.
  5. Cultural heritage is treated with appropriate care (very similar in Toronto).
  6. Underground fighter, opposition leader and political prisoner Corneliu Coposu spreads his Byronic wings.
  7. Memorial to the victims of the Romanian Revolution near the 18th-century Orthodox Church of Kretzulescu (son-in-law of the prince Brâncoveanu).
  8. Today, by the way, is the Children’s Day. They fit into the urban environment as best they can.
  9. Land collector Michael the Brave (fucked it all up and ended badly). One can see a piece of the Church of St. Nicholas in Russian style on the right.
  10. The back of the throne with the royal coat of arms in the Church of St. Nicholas. The Russian community was kicked out of here in 1992 for good.
  11. Former Chamber of Commerce and Industry (National Library under the communists). Now there are offices and a restaurant.
  12. Greek Stavropoleos Monastery, the same age as the Kretzulescu church and also a wonderful example of the Brâncovenesc art.
  13. The Zlătari (Goldsmiths’) Church is a little rustic, but the tiled slopes on panel buildings (in the outskirts too) look quite nice.
  14. Eclectic building (the whole city is like that, so what) of one of the oldest Romanian banks.
  15. Famous Cărturești bookstore is a charming cultural space with an impressive department of English-language publications.
  16. Catholic Church of Bărăția (Brotherhood) was built in 1629, but its first wooden version is 150 years older than Bucharest itself.
  17. A lady in the green hat looks around sadly (and in vain) in search of equal rights for men and women.
  18. The Curtea Veche Church of St. Anthony (1565) is the oldest in the capital. The hospodars of Wallachia were crowned here for two centuries.
  19. The vast area of Bucharest fountains (they sing, dance and glow at night) with graceless panel buildings on the horizon.
  20. Fancy windows slightly enliven the comfortless Trade Union Boulevard without a single bench.
  21. The Ceaușescu Palace is the heaviest administrative building in the world. The standard of megalomania, insane luxury and bad taste.
  22. Drama theatre named after the actress, teacher and translator Lucia Bulandra, who headed it for 14 years.
  23. Incredibly cosy Cișmigiu Gardens.
  24. Here are the flowers.
  25. Count Dracula and Bram Stoker relax from the heart. Composition “Tandem” by surrealist street artist Obei Platon.
  26. Modest (as it should be) building of a Lutheran church.
  27. This gallery is also Lutheran, God forgive me.
  28. This powerful old man is still going strong.
  29. The Red Cross did well this way.
  30. Fuck Google, ask Me!