Bucharest [antikvár]

View of Bucharest A pocket handbook like this, whose aim it is to introduce to the visitor the well-known and lesser known beauty spots of the capital of the Rumanian People's Republic, its monuments and other witnesses of its long history, its institutions and its new residential districts, cannot possibly tabulate all the details of the great city's history. Although the oldest document mentioning the name of Bucharest, a decree bearing the signature and seal of Prince Vlad the Impaler, is dated September 20, 1459, much older silent witnesses including tools made of stone, bronze and iron arms and tools, Dacian-Getic, Greek and Roman ceramics and coins, show that permanent human settlements existed on the banks of the Dimbovifa in ancient times. Nowadays big locomotives bring trains to the North Railway Station standing in a district built a short while ago, a district which some 18 years ago was a mass of ruins left in the wake of sinister aerial bombings. Big planes take off from the International Airport Baneasa, an important traffic centre of South-Eastern Europe. Elegant, up-to-date trolley- and motorbuses take you from the old Sf. Gheorghe Square to the leafy shores of the lakes and 5