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Athenaeum and CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei We like to refer to the “exterior” whenever we analyze local problems and the present day situation in our country can only prove us right. Starting with the ambition of political Europeanization and ending with the famous
Little Paris
top row: Lipscani diggings, Unirea shoping center, house in Romanian Peasant Museum yard, National Museum of Contemporary Art bottom row: Collections Museum on Calea Victoriei, University Sq. , dilapidated building on Lipscani St. , old house on Mantuleasa St. It seems
Cea de-a 12-a ediţie a Festivalului Filmului European, la final
Luna mai a fost, la Bucureşti, Timişoara, Craiova şi Iaşi, luna filmului din Europa : cele 39 de producţii proiectate în cadrul celei de-a XII-a ediţii a Festivalului Filmului European, organizat de Institutul Cultural Român, cu sprijinul Reprezentanţei Comisiei
Despre scurtmetrajul românesc, pe larg: avanpremieră şi dezbatere
Eveniment organizat în parteneriat de Metropolis Film şi Institutul Cultural Român Joi, 12 iunie, de la ora 19. 30, la Cinema Studio din Bucureşti, va avea loc proiecţia, în avanpremieră, a unei selecţii de scurtmetraje româneşti reunite de Metropolis Film sub
A Showcase For Kalodont
Gregor von Rezzori has never been part of Romanian-German literature, a fact regretted even beyond his death. The writer, who was born in 1914 in Czernowitz and died in 1998 in his home in Florence, would have, nonetheless, met some of the conditions for qualification. But,
Public Works From The Time Of Carol I. Acts Of Founding And Commemorative Medals By Nicolae Şt. Noica
clockwise from top left (see also What's old in Gallery): The Athenaeum, The National Bank, The Palace of Justice, CEC Bank, Romanian Peasant Museum, Domnita Balasa Church, Gheorghe Lazar School, University (detail). (Lucrări publice din vremea lui Carol I. Acte
Nature And Architecture: The Parks And Gardens Of The Capital
Cismigiu gardens, Icoanei park, Kiseleff park (see also The green within in Gallery). Many of Bucharest’s gardens and parks, which no longer exist because of extensive urban reorganising, were shaped as the aristocracy tastefully redesigned the open space around their
Grigore Antipa In The Bucharest Of The Beginning Of The 20th Century
Grigore Antipa Museum of Natural History Having returned to the country after finishing his studies his studies and his PhD. thesis, awarded summa cum laude at the famous University of Jena, on 1 April 1893 Dr. Grigore Antipa was appointed director of the Zoology department
Urban Memory: Museums Of The Romanian Capital
1st row: National History Museum, Old Court Museum, Archeology Museum (detail), National Museum of Art2nd row: Collections Museum, Zambaccian Museum, Theodor Aman Museum, Gh. Tattarescu Museum 3rd row: Storck Museum, Romanian Peasant Museum, Astronomical Observatory (detail),
Bucharest – An Oddity Surviving Against All Odds
Bucharest (Rom. Bucureşti) has been some sort of oddity since the very first days of its existence. The legend has it that it was founded by a shepherd, named Bucur, and it was later named after him. Not remotely as glorious a godparent as the goddess of wisdom (the case
The Past: Plus Quam Perfectum
Bucharest is a city in search of identity. Its precise moment of birth is unknown, for the Cetatea Dîmboviţei of the 14th and 15th centuries only played host to its rulers when they occasionally came to ward off threats from south of the Danube or Hungarian attacks form
Adriana Babeţi, Radu Carp, Smaranda Enache şi Emil Hurezeanu la Conferinţa internaţională „Coexisten
• Conferinţa este organizată în cadrul „Anului European al Dialogului Intercultural” şi se află sub partronajul d-nei Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, primarul general al Varşoviei • Conferinţa, la care sunt aşteptate personalităţi religioase, politice, mediatice