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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 ...
University Square, Bucharest. Coordinates: 44°26′7.98″N 26°6′8.45″E. View from the Intercontinental Hotel. University Square during the Christmas of 2014. University Square ( Romanian: Piața Universității) is located in Bucharest city centre, near the University of Bucharest. It is served by Universitate metro station .
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The square in 1910. The Council Square ( Piața Sfatului in Romanian, former Marktplatz in German, Főtér or Tanács tér in Hungarian) is located in the historic centre of Brașov, Romania. [1] It obtained its right to hold markets in 1520, but it has been the place for weekly and annual markets since 1364, being visited by merchants from the ...