A Village Within a City

Orthodox icons at the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Musuem - Bucharest, Romania

There aren't walls this white and windows this blue in Dakar - Bucharest

Lake Herăstrău -- Herăstrău Park, Bucharest

Lake Herăstrău from the Village Musuem (Muzeul Satului)

the Village Musuem

a windmill at the Village Musuem

 

 Lake Herăstrău

What is Bucharest's Village Musuem?

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The Athenaeum & Arc de Triumph...in Bucharest

 The Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, Romania

 Bucharest's own Arc de Triumph

 The beautiful Athenaeum opened in 1888

 The Arc was built in 1922

 It honors the bravery of the Romanian men who fought in World War I

Bucharest

What's the Athenaeum?!

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Every Communist Dictator Needs a People's Palace...

The Palace of the Republic built by Nicolae Ceauşescu- Bucharest, Romania

but many Romanians call it the People's Palace

 View of Bucharest from the Palace

 the second largest office building in the world...behind the Pentagon 

Bucharest

More on the Palace...apparently it's also the world's heaviest building. 

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