Old Photos of the Bucharest Earthquake of 1977
Posted on Nov 18, 2013 in Bucharest, Comunist period, Construction, Events, History | 0 comments

Old Photos of the Bucharest Earthquake o...

The 1977 Vrancea Earthquake occurred on Friday, 4 March 1977, 21:20 local time and was felt throughout the Balkans. About 35,000 buildings were damaged, and the total damage was estimated at more than two billion dollars. Most of the damage was concentrated in  Bucharest, where about 33 large buildings collapsed. Probably made in no more than two or three days after the event , the scenes presents people and bulldozers, workers and the army that helps remove piles of debris.     Via:...
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Bucharest seen by an american tourist in 1974
Posted on Jun 27, 2012 in Architecture, Bucharest, Comunist period, History, Other | 0 comments

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...
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Stavropoleos Monastery
Posted on Apr 16, 2012 in Architecture, Bucharest, History | 0 comments

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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Top 10 representative buildings of gray Bucharest
Posted on Dec 19, 2011 in Bucharest, Exhibitions, Museum, Other | 0 comments

Top 10 representative buildings of gray ...

Everyone says that Bucharest is a gray city. That is why ideiurbane.ro did an experiment. It colored 10 of the most representative buildings in the city. The result of this experiment you can see below . Via : ideiurbane.ro
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