Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest is the capital of Romania. According to Romanian, Bucharest literally means “Owning a kind of Bukura”. Bucharest was founded in 1459, in 1659 it became the capital of the Principality of Wallachia, and after the unification of all principalities in the year 1862, the common capital of Romania. The most interesting is in the old town, there are many historical monuments. This part of Bucharest acquired its present appearance between 1870 and 1920, turning from the village into a real European city. Most of the houses of that time were built with the participation of French architects, so Bucharest is sometimes called “little Paris”.
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