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Visit to Bucharest

editor — Fri, 05 May 2017 17:57:25 +0000

The Museum of the Romanian Peasant This is one of the most diversified museums from the European family of Museums of Arts and Popular Traditions. The building which houses the current museum was build during 1912-1941. It became famous for its collections consisting of 100,000 objects. The building, testimony of the neo-Romanian style inspired by the Brancovenesc tradition, designed in the shape of monastic edifices, was finalized in 1941. taking the appearance of the present-day architectural monument which is the Museum of the Romanian Peasant. The visible masonry made of red bricks, the arches and tracery, the turret which is

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Bucharest Guide for Tourist

editor — Fri, 05 May 2017 17:38:23 +0000

Short historical context The legend says that the settlement was founded by a shepherd named Bucur who used to make a halt on the banks of Dambovita with his herd. According to another version, officially attested, the town of Bucharest was founded by the ruler of Walachia, Mircea the Old, at the end of the 16th century. Archaeological discoveries attest the existence of human settlements on the territory of Bucharest, dating back to the middle and late Paleolithic (approx. 150,000 BC). In the Middle Ages, the town became an important trading center, important enough to allow rulers in the 14th

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