Bucharest History
Short History
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Bucharest is placed at 60 km away from the Danube, 125 km from the Carpathian Mountains and 260 km from the Black Sea. According to legend, a sheperd called Bucur, who built a settlement amid the Vlasia forest, founded Bucharest. It was recorded as a nameless "citadel on the Dâmbovita" in 1368, and named as Bucharest in an edict from the time of Vlad the Impaler. Chosen to be the capital of the United Principality of Romania in 1859, Bucharest becomes the capital of Romania in 1862. We believe the best description of Bucharest is to be found in Nicolae Iorga’s “History of Bucharest”: "Bucharest is a creation of our own nation, it expresses our originality, it is what were able to do (...) By its own vitality, Bucharest has managed to impose itself as a unique Capital, that had received all the attentive care of some great personalities we have not fully understood, to show then the gratitude they deserved" A walk in time, on the streets and boulevards of this beautiful town, by the end of the nineteenth century - under the vaults of the boarding trees, so pleasantly shady during the summer heat - will lead us through a town that is no more and which fully deserved its name. We shall observe the French influence on some city squares with radical streets or we shall reach streets flooded with vegetation. We shall admire monuments, and we shall try to make revive the atmosphere of the last century; we shall notice its changes and evolution (...) Today, Bucharest is experiencing renewed vigor. The city always got the appreciation of the travelers because of its green spaces, its architecture and the kindness of its inhabitants.