Bulevardul Magheru
View towards the north
Native nameBulevardul General Gheorghe Magheru (Romanian)
Former name(s)Ion C. Brătianu, Take Ionescu, Republicii
LocationBucharest, Romania
Nearest metro stationUniversitate
Piața Romană
Coordinates44°26′33.64″N 26°5′54.91″E / 44.4426778°N 26.0985861°E / 44.4426778; 26.0985861
South endNicolae Bălcescu Boulevard
North endPiața Romană

Bulevardul Magheru is a major street in central Bucharest. Built in the early 20th century, it is named after General Gheorghe Magheru.

Together with Bulevardul Bălcescu, Magheru connects Piața Romană and Piața Universității squares and was in the 1930s and 1940s Bucharest's most modern part. This is one of Europe and world's most representative modernist boulevards, where the architecture in vogue in the 1930s is prevalent.

Part of the major thoroughfare than runs through the middle of Bucharest, it is continued to the south of C. A. Rosetti Street by Nicolae Bălcescu Boulevard and then by Ion C. Brătianu Boulevard, and toward the north by Lascăr Catargiu Boulevard and Șoseaua Kiseleff.

Bulevardul Magheru is one of the most expensive shopping streets in Europe.[1]

Notable buildings and structures

The Gas and Electricity Society Palace
Hotel Ambasador

Some notable buildings on Bulevardul Magheru are listed below, in the order in which they were built.

  • Ciclop Parking Garage, built in 1923 by Constantin Iotzu, now abandoned
  • Hotel Lido, built in 1930
  • Patria Cinema, housed in Horia Creangă's modernist 10-story ARO building, built in 1931
  • Gas and Electricity Society Palace, built in 1935
  • Scala Cinema, built in 1937
  • Casata building, built in 1938, destroyed during the 1977 earthquake, rebuilt after that
  • Hotel Ambasador, built in 1939
  • Nottara Theater, founded in 1947
  • ITB building, built in 1959
  • Eva building, built in 1961
  • ONT building, built in 1961
  • Piața Romană metro station, opened in 1988

The Dimitrie Sturdza House is just off the boulevard, on Arthur Verona Street.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bucharest main boulevard Magheru among the most expensive in European commercial rents top". Hotnews.ro (in Romanian). 5 November 2008.
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