A list of prominent buildings 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....

, 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...

, organized alphabetically within each category.

Churches

• Anglican Church
  Anglican Church (Bucharest)
  The Anglican Church of the Resurrection is a church located in central Bucharest, Romania, near Grădina Icoanei, at the intersection of Xenopol street and Arthur Verona street...
  
  
• Antim Monastery
  Antim Monastery
  The Antim Monastery is located in Bucharest, Romania on Mitropolit Antim Ivireanu Street, no. 29. It was built between 1713 and 1715 by Saint Antim Ivireanu, at that time a Metropolitan Bishop of Romania. The buildings were restored by Patriarch Justinian Marina in the 1950s. As of 2005, there are...
  
   (Mănăstirea Antim)
• Apostle's Church (Biserica Sfinţii Apostoli)
• Boteanu Church
• Bucharest Bărăţia
  Bucharest Baratia
  Bărăţia is one of the Roman Catholic churches in Bucharest, Romania. It is located in central Bucharest, on the I. C. Brătianu Blvd, next to Piaţa Unirii.-Name:...
  
   - oldest Roman Catholic church
• Bucur the Shepherd
  Bucur Church
  Bucur Church is a church which formerly served as the chapel for the Radu Voda Monastery. There is no exact date for the building of the church and this has been the subject of much discussion among Romanian historians...
  
   (Bucur Ciobanul) - the oldest standing
• Doamnei Church (Biserica Doamnei)
• Domniţa Bălaşa Church (Biserica Domniţa Bălaşa)
• Italian Church
  Italian Church (Bucharest)
  The Neo-Gothic red brick edifice was built in 1930. Owned by the Italian government, it is surrounded by grey concrete apartment blocks. Services are held daily in Romanian at 6 PM, and on Sundays, in Polish at 9 AM, Romanian at 10 AM, Italian at 11 AM....
  
   (Chiesa Italiana / Biserica Italiană)
• Kretzulescu Church
  Kretzulescu Church
  Kretzulescu Church is an Eastern Orthodox church in central Bucharest, Romania. Built in the Brâncovenesc style, it is located on Calea Victoriei, nr. 45A, at one of the corners of Revolution Square, next to the former Royal Palace....
  
  
• New St. George (Sf. Gheorghe Nou)
• Patriarchal Cathedral
  Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral
  The Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral is located near the palace of the Patriarchate of the Romanian Orthodox Church, on Dealul Mitropoliei, in Bucharest, Romania....
  
   (Catedrala Patriarhală)
• Radu Vodă Monastery
  Radu Voda Monastery
  -Paleolithic:Because of its favorable environment and the elevated terrain close to a big river, the area of the monastery was inhabited starting from the Paleolithic . It is the site of the oldest known settlement on the territory of Romania...
  
  
• Sacré-Cœur French Church
  French Church (Bucharest)
  The French Church of the Sacred Heart is a Roman Catholic parish church located at 3 Gheorghe Demetriade Street, Bucharest, Romania. It is classified as a historic monument by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs....
  
  
• St Anton Old Court
  Curtea Veche
  Curtea Veche , built as a place or residence during the rule of Vlad III Dracula in the 15th century, now operates as a museum in the centre of Bucharest, Romania. The residence was moved under the rule of Radu cel Frumos, who moved the princely residence and the Wallachian capital to Bucharest...
  
   Church (Biserica Curtea Veche)
• St. Joseph's Cathedral (Catedrala Sfântul Iosif), Roman Catholic
  Roman Catholic Church
  The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
  
   Cathedral
• St. Nicholas
  Bucharest Russian Church
  St. Nicholas Russian Church is located in downtown Bucharest, Romania, just off University Square. Russian Ambassador Mikhail Nikolaevich Giers initiated the building of a Russian Orthodox church in central Bucharest in 1905...
  
   (formerly known as the Russian Church)
• Stavropoleos Church (Biserica Stavropoleos)
• Saint Haralambie Church (Biserica Sfântul Haralambie)

Museums

• ”Grigore Antipa
  Grigore Antipa
  Grigore Antipa was a Romanian Darwinist biologist who studied the fauna of the Danube Delta and the Black Sea. Between 1892 and 1944 he was the director of the Bucharest Natural History Museum, which now bears his name....
  
  ” Museum of Natural History
• National Museum of Art
  National Museum of Art of Romania
  The National Museum of Art of Romania is located in the former royal palace in Revolution Square, central Bucharest, Romania, completed in 1937...
  
   (Muzeul Naţional de Artă)
• Museum of Art Collections
  Museum of Art Collections
  The Museum of Art Collections is a branch of the National Museum of Art of Romania and is situated in Bucharest. It contains 44 collections donated to the Romanian State beginning with 1927 by the families of: Hurmuz Aznavorian, Dumitru and Maria Ştefănescu, Josefina and Eugen Taru, Emanoil Romulus...
  
  
• National Museum of Contemporary Art
• Cotroceni Palace
  Cotroceni Palace
  Cotroceni Palace is a palace in Bucharest which is the residence of the President of Romania, located at Bulevardul Geniului, nr. 1.On Cotroceni Hill, in 1679, Şerban Cantacuzino built a monastery...
  
   National Museum (Muzeul Naţional Cotroceni)
• George Enescu Museum
• National Geological Museum
  Geology Museum (Romania)
  The National Geology Museum is hosted by the building built in 1906 for the Geological Institute of Romania. The building was designed by the Victor Ştefănescu using the neo-Brâncovenesc style, and was declared an architectural monument. The museum hosts a collection of 80,000 samples of rocks,...
  
  
• ”Dimitrie Gusti” Village Museum
  Village Museum
  The Village Museum is an open-air ethnographic museum located in the Herăstrău Park , showcasing traditional Romanian village life. The museum extends to over 100,000 m2, and contains 272 authentic peasant farms and houses from all over Romania.It was created in 1936 by Dimitrie Gusti, Victor Ion...
  
   (Muzeul Satului)
• National Museum of Romanian History
  National Museum of Romanian History
  The National Museum of Romanian History is a museum on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest, Romania, which contains Romanianhistorical artifacts from prehistoric times up to modern times....
  
  
• History and Art Museum (Palatul Şuţu)
• Jewish History Museum
  Jewish Museum (Bucharest)
  The Jewish Museum in Bucharest, Romania is located in the former Templul Unirea Sfântă synagogue, which survived both World War II and Nicolae Ceauşescu unscathed....
  
  
• Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum
  Dimitrie Leonida Technical Museum
  The Romanian Technical Museum was founded in 1909 by Dimitrie Leonida, inspired by Munchen technical museum, visited during his studies in Charlottenburg Politechnic institute....
  
   ("Prof. Eng. Dimitrie Leonida" Technological Museum)
• Military Museum
  National Military Museum (Romania)
  The National Military Museum , located at 125-127 Mircea Vulcănescu St., Bucharest, Romania, was established in 1923 by King Ferdinand. It has been at its present site since 1988, in a building finished in 1898.- External links :...
  
  
• Theodor Pallady Museum
  Theodor Pallady Museum
  The Theodor Pallady Museum is a museum situated in one of the oldest surviving merchant houses in Bucharest, Romania. It includes many works by the well-known Romanian painter Theodor Pallady, as well as a number of European and Oriental furniture pieces....
  
  
• Museum of the Romanian Peasant
  Museum of the Romanian Peasant
  The Museum of the Romanian Peasant is a museum in Bucharest, Romania, with a collection of textiles , icons, ceramics, and other artifacts of Romanian peasant life...
  
   (Muzeul Ţăranului Român)
• Zambaccian Museum
  Zambaccian Museum
  The Zambaccian Museum in Bucharest, Romania is a museum in the former home of Krikor Zambaccian , an Armenian businessman and art collector. The museum was founded in 1947, closed by the Ceauşescu regime in 1977, and re-opened in 1992. It is now a branch of The National Museum of Art of Romania...
  
  

Colleges and universities

Public Universities and Colleges:

• National Academy of Sports (Academia Naţională de Educaţie Fizică şi Sport)
• Academy of Economic Studies (Academia de Studii Economice)
• Architecture Institute (Institutul de Arhitectură Ion Mincu)
• Microtechnology Institute (Institutul de Microtehnologie)
• University of Bucharest
  University of Bucharest
  The University of Bucharest , in Romania, is a university founded in 1864 by decree of Prince Alexander John Cuza to convert the former Saint Sava Academy into the current University of Bucharest.-Presentation:...
  
   (Universitatea Bucureşti)
• Polytechnic University of Bucharest
  Polytechnic University of Bucharest
  Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti is a technical university in Bucharest, Romania. It was founded in 1864 based on the older technical school of Gheorghe Lazăr and it was renamed "Politehnica" in 1920.-History:...
  
   (Universitatea Politehnică Bucureşti)
• Technical University of Construction (Universitatea Tehnică de Construcţii)
• Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
  Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
  Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy is a state-run health sciences University in Bucharest, Romania. It is the largest institution of its kind in Romania with over 2.865 employees, 1.654 teachers and over 4.800 students...
  
   (Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Carol Davila)
• University of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine
  Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara
  University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine is a university in Bucharest, Romania which specializes in agriculture and veterinary medicine. Its campus is located on 59, Mărăşti Blvd.-External links:* * * * * * * * *...
  
   (Universitatea de Ştiinţe Agricole şi Medicină Veterinară)
• Music University
  National University of Music Bucharest
  The National University of Music Bucharest is a university-level school of music located in Bucharest, Romania. Established as a school of music in 1863 and reorganized as an academy in 1931, it has functioned as a public university since 2001...
  
   (Universitatea de Muzică)
• Art University
  Bucharest National University of Arts
  The Bucharest National University of Arts is a university in Bucharest preparing students in fine arts.The university has three faculties:* The Faculty of Fine Arts* The Faculty of Decorative Arts and Design* The Faculty of History and Theory of Art...
  
   (Universitatea de Arte)
• University of Theatrical Art and Filmmaking (Universitatea de Artă Teatrală şi Cinematografică "Ion Luca Caragiale")
• National School for Political and Administrative Studies (Şcoala Naţională de Studii Politice şi Administrative)

Source: the Law on the Organization of the Education and Research Ministry http://www.edu.ro/download/hg223.pdf.

Miscellaneous

• Bucharest Mall
  Bucuresti Mall
  The Bucureşti Mall is a shopping mall located in Bucharest, Romania, close to the Dudeşti and Văcăreşti neighbourhoods. At the time of its completion it was the first shopping mall in Romania....
  
  
• City Mall
• Plaza Romania
  Plaza Romania
  The Plaza Romania is a shopping mall in Bucharest, Romania. The construction, based on an uncompleted hunger circus abandoned after fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu, has 3 distinguishible parts — a central structure with a dome 40 metres in diameter, and two new and complex wing structures...
  
  
• Unirea Shopping Center
  Unirea Shopping Center
  Unirea Shopping Center is a large shopping centre located in Unirii Square, Bucharest, Romania.Opened in 1976 and enlarged in 1989, it was the largest department store in Communist Romania. Converted, in 1990's, into a shopping centre, the complex has a total area of and 1000 parking spaces...
  
  
• Casa Presei Libere
  Casa Presei Libere
  Casa Presei Libere is a building in northern Bucharest, Romania, the tallest in the city between 1956 and 2007.A horse race track was built in 1905 on the future site of Casa Presei Libere...
  
  
• National Military Center (Cercul Militar Naţional)
• Creţulescu Palace
  Cretulescu Palace
  Creţulescu Palace is a historic building near the Cişmigiu Gardens on the Ştirbei Vodă street nr. 39 in Bucharest, Romania...
  
  
• Elisabeta Palace
  Elisabeta Palace
  The Palace of Elisabeta , in Bucharest, Romania, is currently the stately home of King Michael I of Romania.The palace was designed in 1930 by the architect Marcu and built in 1936 for Princess Elisabeta, the former queen of Greece and sister of King Carol II...
  
  
• Palace of the Parliament
  Palace of the Parliament
  The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Romania is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Parliament. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Palace is the world's largest civilian administrative building, most expensive administrative building, and...
  
   (Palatul Parlamentului)
• Palace Casino
• Pasajul Macca-Vilacrosse
  Pasajul Macca-Vilacrosse
  Pasajul Macca-Vilacrosse is a fork-shaped, yellow glass covered arcaded street in downtown Bucharest, Romania. Câmpineanu Inn once stood in the place nowadays occupied by the passage....
  
  
• ruins of the Old Court (Curtea Veche
  Curtea Veche
  Curtea Veche , built as a place or residence during the rule of Vlad III Dracula in the 15th century, now operates as a museum in the centre of Bucharest, Romania. The residence was moved under the rule of Radu cel Frumos, who moved the princely residence and the Wallachian capital to Bucharest...
  
  )
• Central University Library of Bucharest
  Central University Library of Bucharest
  The Central University Library of Bucharest is a library in central Bucharest, located across the street from the National Museum of Art of Romania....
  
   (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară)

Theaters

• Act Theater (Teatrul Act)
• C. Tănase
  Constantin Tanase
  Constantin Tănase was a Romanian actor and writer for stage, a key figure in the revue style of theater in Romania.-Life:Born into a working-class family living in a peasant house in Vaslui, Romania...
  
   Theater (Teatrul C. Tănase), home of a satirical revue
• Casandra Theater Studio (Studioul Casandra), student theater
• Comedy Theater (Teatrul de Comedie)
• Excelsior Theater (Teatrul Excelsior)
• Green Hours Theater (Teatrul Luni de la Green Hours)
• Hanul cu Tei
  Hanul cu Tei
  Hanul cu Tei is one of the few still standing old inns in downtown Bucharest, Romania.It was built in 1833 by Anastasie Hagi Gheorghe Polizu and Ştefan Popovici, on the trading street of Lipscani. It was also called the Bezesten de pe Uliţa cea mare a Marchitanilor...
  
   Theater
• Ion Creangă
  Ion Creanga
  Ion Creangă was a Moldavian-born Romanian writer, raconteur and schoolteacher. A main figure in 19th century Romanian literature, he is best known for his Childhood Memories volume, his novellas and short stories, and his many anecdotes...
  
   Theater (a puppet theater)
• Bulandra Theatre
  Bulandra Theatre
  The Bulandra Theatre in Bucharest, Romania was founded in 1947 as Teatrul Municipal; its first director was Lucia Sturdza Bulandra, one of the leading Romanian stage actresses of her generation...
  
  
• Nottara Theater (Teatrul Nottara)
• Odeon Theatre
• Operetta (Teatrul Naţional de Operetă)
• National Theatre Bucharest
  National Theatre Bucharest
  The National Theatre Bucharest is one of the national theatres of Romania, located in the capital city of Bucharest.-Founding:It was founded as the Teatrul cel Mare din Bucureşti in 1852, its first director being Costache Caragiale...
  
   (Teatrul Naţional I.L. Caragiale
  Ion Luca Caragiale
  Ion Luca Caragiale was a Wallachian-born Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist...
  
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• Small Theater (Teatrul Mic)
• Ţăndărică Theater (a puppet theater)
• Theatrum Mundi
• Union Theater
• State Jewish Theater
  State Jewish Theater (Romania)
  Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat in Bucharest, Romania is a theater specializing in Jewish-related plays. Its contemporary repertoire includes plays by Jewish authors, plays on Jewish topics, and plays in Yiddish...
  
   (Teatrul Evreiesc de Stat)
• Very Small Theater (Teatrul Foarte Mic)

Other performance venues

• Radio Hall (Sala Radio)
• Romanian Athenaeum
  Romanian Athenaeum
  The Romanian Athenaeum is a concert hall in the center of Bucharest, Romania and a landmark of the Romanian capital city. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, circular building is the city's main concert hall and home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and of the George Enescu annual international...
  
   (Ateneul Român)
• Romanian National Opera
  Romanian National Opera
  The Romanian National Opera is one of the national opera companies of Romania, situated in a historical building in Bucharest, near the Cotroceni neighbourhood....
  
   (Opera Română)

Hotels

This is not a comprehensive list of hotels 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....

, only those of architectural

Architecture

Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

 or historic significance.

• Athénée Palace
  Athénée Palace
  The Athénée Palace hotel in Bucharest, Romania, now a Hilton, may have been Europe's most notorious den of spies in the years leading up to World War II, and only slightly less so during the Cold War. Located in the heart of Bucharest on Str...
  
   Hilton
• InterContinental Bucharest
  InterContinental Bucharest
  The InterContinental Bucharest is a highrise five star hotel situated near University Square, Bucharest, in sector 1 and is also a landmark of the city...
  
  
• Lido Hotel
• Bucharest Hotel
• Manuc's Inn (Hanul lui Manuc)
• Bucharest Novotel

Restaurants

This is not a comprehensive list of restaurants 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....

, only those of architectural

Architecture

Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

 or historic significance.

• Amsterdam Grand Café
• Bistro Atheneu
• Caru' cu Bere
• Casa Capşa
  Casa Capsa
  Casa Capşa is a historic restaurant in Bucharest, Romania, first established in 1852. At various times it has also included a hotel; most recently, it reopened as a 61-room hotel 17 June 2003....
  
  
• Manuc's Inn (Hanul lui Manuc)

Bars and Clubs

This is not a comprehensive list of bars and clubs 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....

, only those of architectural

Architecture

Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...

 or historic significance or which are significant as performance venues.

• Big Mamou
• Cafeneua Actorilor (literally, "actors' coffee-shop")
• Caru Cu Bere (literally, "beer wagon")
• Club A
• Green Hours
• Lăptăria Enache
  Laptaria Enache
  Lăptăria lui Enache is one of the top bars in Bucharest, Romania. Located in a slightly curved space above the main halls of Bucharest National Theatre near Piaţa Universităţii , the bar is one of the city's best-known gathering spots and music venues. The lobby is decorated with Tristan Tzara and...
  
  (literally, "Enache's milk-shop")
• Impaler
• Manuc's Inn (Hanul lui Manuc)

External links

• Bucharest Historical Monuments Map