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  2. 2013-10-05-Bucharest, Romania-Romanian Cultural Village, Orthodox Cathedral & Palace of Parliament2013-10-05-Bucharest, Romania-Romanian Cultural Village, Orthodox Cathedral & Palace of Parliament
We visited three locations in Bucharest today with our guide and fellow travelers-The Village Museum in Herăstrău Park, The Orthodox Cathedral complex-the 17th century Patriarchal Church- and the Palace of Parliament, a brutish piece of Communist era architecture built by Ceausescu Romania's Dictator at the time. The building is gigantic; only the Pentagon is larger. After we completed the day's tour in Bucharest we made our way to the river port town of Giurgiu where we boarded the Viking Embla to begin our Danube River cruise. After a welcome cocktail with the crew and fellow travelers the six of us shared a great dinner and lots of laughs on board.

Coltea Settlements Hospital (1888)

The Sword Bearer Mihai Cantacuzino, great Christian and philanthropist, and also a scholar of his time who studied humanist disciplines in Padua, Italy, erected at his expense, between 1695-1698 a stone church, and later established around it a monastery, a belfry, a school and a hospital. The Coltea hospital was the first great hospital in Romanian Principalities, and has been functioning uninterruptedly ever since. Coltea Hospital sheltered and treated the wounded of the Independence War (Plevna) in 1877, of the war for Cadrilater region (Southern Dobrudja) in 1913, of the Great War for Reunification (1916-1918), of Don Bend and Tatra Mountains’ battles in 1940-1944. To this hospital were brought nearly all the young men injured in the Romanian Revolution in December 1989.
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Coltea Settlements Hospital (1888)

Ioan Bolborea is a Romanian sculptor who was born in 1956
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Bronze sculptures by Ioan Bolborea

Ioan Bolborea is a Romanian sculptor who was born in 1956
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The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies is a public university in Bucharest, Romania. Founded in 1913 as the Academy of High Commercial and Industrial Studies, it has become one of the largest higher education institutes in both Romania and South-Eastern Europe.
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Bucharest

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Restaurant Pescarus

A run of the mill tourist restaurant where busloads of tourists are mass processed and offered substandard local food while being entertained by obviously bored folk dancers.
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Laurie and Chris lunching at the Restaurant Pescarus

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Romanian folk dancers at Restaurant Pescarus

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A lovely Romanian folk dancer at Restaurant Pescarus

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Casa Scanteii – “House of the Spark” (1957)from Bucharest's Lake Hersatru

A replica of the famous “Lomonosov” Moscow State University, this edifice built in the characteristic style of the large-scale Soviet projects, was intended to be representative to the new political regime and to assert the superiority of the Communist doctrine. Construction started in 1952 and was completed in 1957, a few years after Stalin’s death that occurred in 1953. Popularly known as Casa Scanteii (“House of the Spark”) after the name of the official gazette of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, Scanteia, it was made for the purpose of bringing together under one roof all of Bucharest’s official press and publishing houses. It is the only building in Bucharest featuring the “Hammer and Sickle”, the Red Star and other communist insignia carved into medallions adorning the façade
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