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[Worldtravelguide.net] Located midway between the Carpathian Mountains and the Black Sea, Bucharest has not earned the nickname Paris of the Balkans by accident. Its astonishing range of architecture from Wallachian wooden and bell-towered mansions to Byzantine-style chapels, neo-classical buildings, striking 1930s modernism and even the post-Stalinist absurdities of Ceaucescus megalomaniac regime cannot help but leave the visitor in awe at the varieties of vision that have taken place in this city over the centuries.
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[Travelguides.lastminute.com] lastminute.com - Bucharest Guide: But after liberation, Bucharest began to forge a different identity, with French architects called in to remake it in the image of Paris, with long, tree-lined boulevards and a forging of classical and new Romanian architecture. Between the world wars, influenced by modernist trends from native artists who had lived abroad, such as Constantin Brancusi, Bucharest began to rejoice in a mixture of styles that would make it totally individual and produced some of Europe’s most beautiful residences for the elite.
[Lastminute.com] Bucharest Travel: Deals and travel information for Bucharest, Romania: Bucharest (Buchuresti), located midway between the Carpathian Mountains and the Black Sea, in southeastern Romania, has not earned the nickname Paris of the Balkans by accident. Its astonishing range of architecture (from Wallachian wooden and bell-towered mansions to Byzantine-style chapels, neo-classical buildings, striking 1930s modernism and even the post-Stalinist absurdities of Ceaucescus megalomaniac regime) cannot help but leave the visitor in awe at the varieties of vision that have taken place in this city, over the centuries.
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