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Piața Romană ( Romanian for " Roman Square") is a metro station in central Bucharest, located in the square with the same name, on the main north–south axis of the city centre. The entrance to the station is on Magheru Boulevard . According to Sorin Călinescu, one the three planners of the station, when shown the plans for the Line M2 in ...
The first proposals for a metro system in Bucharest were made in the early part of the 20th century, by the Romanian engineers Dimitrie Leonida and Elie Radu. [8] The earliest plans for a Bucharest Metro were drafted in the late 1930s, alongside the general plans for urban modernization of the city. [9] The outbreak of World War II, followed by ...
Piața Romană, a 19th-century painting by Juan Alpar. Piața Romană ( The Roman Square) is a major traffic intersection in Sector 1, central Bucharest. Two major boulevards intersect in Piața Romană: Lascăr Catargiu Boulevard (which runs northwest towards Piața Victoriei) and Magheru Boulevard (which runs south by southeast towards ...
Piazza Navona ( pronounced [ˈpjattsa naˈvoːna]) is a public open space in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the 1st century AD Stadium of Domitian and follows the form of the open space of the stadium in an elongated oval. [1] The ancient Romans went there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it was known as " Circus Agonalis ...
Piața Victoriei is a metro station in Piața Victoriei ( Victory Square ), central Bucharest. It is near the Victoria Palace, the headquarters of the Romanian government. The metro station consists of two parts, set on different levels: Piața Victoriei 2, serving Line M1, is below. Along with Piața Unirii, the Piața Victoriei station is one ...
Bucharest is the eighth largest city in the European Union by population within city limits, behind Warsaw, Poland and one position ahead of Budapest, Hungary . Economically, Bucharest is the most prosperous city in Romania and the richest capital and city in the region, having surpassed Budapest since 2017.
Sibiu (/ s iː ˈ b j uː / see-BEW, pronounced, German: Hermannstadt [ˈhɛʁmanʃtat], Latin: Cibinium, Transylvanian Saxon: Härmeschtat or Hermestatt, Hungarian: Nagyszeben [ˈnɒcsɛbɛn]) is a middle-sized, well-preserved fortified medieval town in central Romania, situated in the historical region of Transylvania (Romanian: Transilvania, German: Siebenbürgen or Transsilvanien).
Coordinates: 44.44058°N 26.09646°E. Revolution Square ( Romanian: Piața Revoluției) is a square in central Bucharest, on Calea Victoriei. Known as Palace Square (Romanian: Piața Palatului) until 1989, it was renamed after the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 . The former Royal Palace (now the National Museum of Art of Romania ), the ...