Bucur's City
A strange and romantic city - this is Bucharest. Its paradoxes and charm are
given by the shadows, still tangible, of the past, and the dynamism of present
times.
There is a Bucharest of music, a Bucharest of theatres, with some of the most
talented European actors, a Bucharest of culture and religion, waiting to be
discovered.
A city without legends would be like an adult without childhood. They say that
a shepherd named Bucur has set up a village, on the banks of the Dâmbovita
river, in a plain that does not go over 98 m.
Historians, indulgent with the romanticism of the legend, proved that the present
capital of Romania has been populated ever since the middle Palaeolithic and
Neolithic, thanks to its favourable positioning for the traffic of people and
goods.
Bucharest is placed at 60 km away from the Danube, 125 km from the Carpathian
Mountains and 260 km from the Black Sea.
Bucharest, named in the past the Citadel of Dâmbovita, has had its present
name for centuries, a fact attested by the document signed on the 20th September
1459 by Prince Vlad the Impaler, who settled here his second residence after
Targoviste.
Chosen to be the capital of the United Principality of Romania in 1859, Bucharest
becomes the capital of Romania in 1862.
The city always got the appreciation of the travellers because of its green
spaces, its architecture and the kindness of its inhabitants.
Its elegant and exuberant atmosphere once gave it the name of "small Paris".
Nowadays, Bucharest's former atmosphere can be met in the streets around Calea
Mosilor St. and in the old churches.
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