Constantin Brâncoveanu metro station
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Constantin Brâncoveanu is a metro station in Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

. It is named after Constantin Brâncoveanu
Constantin Brâncoveanu
Constantin Brâncoveanu was Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714.-Ascension:A descendant of the Craioveşti boyar family and related to Matei Basarab, Brâncoveanu was born at the estate of Brâncoveni and raised in the house of his uncle, stolnic Constantin Cantacuzino...

, a Wallachia
Wallachia
Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...

n prince (1654–1714).
It is located at the junction of Oltenitei street and Constantin Brâncoveanu boulevard, right next to the southern entrance into Tineretului Park
Tineretului Park
Tineretului Park is a large public park in southern Bucharest .-History:The park, which was created in 1965 and planned by the architect Valentin Donose, was designed as the main recreational space for southern Bucharest, an area which was heavily developed during the 1960s and...

, providing easy access to the Sala Polivalentă
Sala Polivalenta
Sala Polivalentă is a multi-purpose hall in Bucharest, Romania, located in Tineretului Park. It is frequently used for concerts, indoor sports such as tennis, gymnastics, dance, handball, volleyball, weightlifting, judo, boxing, mixed martial arts and professional wrestling. The hall was opened in...

 (Polivalenta Hall, a frequent host to sport events and concerts).Here exist the "Oraselul copiilor"(City of the kids) the greatest amusement park in Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

.
Since the fall of communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...

 the platform has been dominated by a statue of Constantin Brancoveanu
Constantin Brâncoveanu
Constantin Brâncoveanu was Prince of Wallachia between 1688 and 1714.-Ascension:A descendant of the Craioveşti boyar family and related to Matei Basarab, Brâncoveanu was born at the estate of Brâncoveni and raised in the house of his uncle, stolnic Constantin Cantacuzino...

 and his sons, replacing the old statue of Ion Popescu-Puturi, a communist leader.
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