{"id":190,"date":"2007-11-15T22:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=190"},"modified":"2007-11-15T22:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T12:55:00","slug":"things-to-see-bucharest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/romania\/things-to-see-in-bucharest\/things-to-see-bucharest","title":{"rendered":"Things to see &#8211; Bucharest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Driving around the city centre in Bucharest, you wouldn&#8217;t be wrong in sensing that the place has an air of French influence about it, for example the wide boulevarded streets and the Arcul de Triumf.\u00a0 This is because the aristocracy in the past used to send their kids to France for studies and they in turn\u00a0imported French ideas and designs.\u00a0 The Arcul de Triumf is an example of this and was built in 1922 to commemorate the dead from Romania&#8217;s Great War.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Another example is the Carol I Park which was designed by the French landscape artist Eduard Redont and installed by the city&#8217;s authorities\u00a0from 1900-6.\u00a0 Today it is dominated by the massive Monument to the Heroes of the Struggle for Freedom and Socialism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Driving north of the city, you&#8217;ll come across Herastrau Park which extends for 187 hectares from the Arcul de Triumf to the Baneasa Bridge.\u00a0 The lake in the park is also called Baneasa lake.\u00a0 <em>Ban<\/em> in Romanian means <em>prince<\/em> and <em>Baneasa<\/em> is a little less than a prince.\u00a0 Herastrau Park is a nice place for strolling around and you could also take a ride in the lake.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving around the city centre in Bucharest, you wouldn&#8217;t be wrong in sensing that the place has an air of French influence about it, for example the wide boulevarded streets and the Arcul de Triumf.\u00a0 This is because the aristocracy in the past used to send their kids to France for studies and they in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-to-see-in-bucharest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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