The old Bucharest
Below are some photos taken in interwar Bucharest Enjoy ! Via : pmb.ro
Bucharest seen by an american tourist in...
Sanda Kaufman , a american tourist , visited Bucharest in 1974 . She taken some pictures representing the city in that period. Via: Sanda...
Bonțida Bánffy Castle
Bonţida Bánffy Castle is an architectonic Baroque monument situated in Bonţida, a village in the vicinity of Cluj-Napoca The castle was desecrated during World War II by German troops and neglected by the communist regime in Romania and it is currently being...
Stavropoleos Monastery
The Stavropoleos Church was built by Archimandrite Ioanichie in 1724, during the second reign of Nicolae Mavrocordat (1719-1730) in the Romanian Land. Born in the village of Ostanitza in the eparchy of Pogoniana (Epirus), Ioanichie came to the Romanian Land from Gura, a dependent monastery of the Pogoniana Archbishopric. The present church was built by Ioanichie within the precincts of the two-storey inn he had established in Bucharest. The monastery he founded was sustained financially by the inn, a common arrangement during the epoch. In 1726, Abbot Ioanichie was...
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