Around Bucharest

A few of the sights of Bucharest. This is a wooden church from Muramures, taken down piece by piece in the 1930's and moved to the Village Museum at Herestrau Park in Bucharest. The Village Museum is a living history museum created by a sociology professor at the University of Bucharest to exhibit the very diverse material culture of the different regions of Romania. The wooden churches of Muramures are celebrated throughout Romania.

This is the centerpiece of the Freedom of the Press square, although the building seems to date from an era when the freedom of the press was not a key value:


This ruined bridge in Dambovita County shows something of the state in which Ceausescu left the infrastructure:



Herestrau Park, in the northern part of the city, is built around a series of natural lakes and undisturbed original forest. It's the equal of any large park in any city. You hardly remember that you are in a city when you are there.