Bucharest - Touristic Guide

 Bucharest, with a population of 2,1 million inhabitants (that it catches up 2,3 million in the metropolitan area), is the understood one them of Romania. It is also the industrial center and it trades them of the country.
 The surface total of Bucharest is 228 km². Until little time it makes, the surrounding zones were mainly rural, but from the 1989 it has been begun to construct new quarters around to the city.
 Located to the center of the Romena Plain, Bucharest finds in one position much favorable one: to single 65 kilometers from the Danube (Giurgiu port), to 260 kilometers from the shoreline of the Black Mar (Constanţa), to 125 kilometers from the chain of the Mounts Carpaţi(Sinaia and Goes it them of Prahova).

 It was called like "Paris of the East", later on to a great economic development and cultural and in the Second World war, Bucharest has grown from the architectonic point of view.
 The official language is the Romeno, of Latin origin; they are spoken running English, French and German. The Italian is understood easy.

 It comes also called ' the city on the Dâmboviţa ', for the river omonimo that it crosses it, extremely colorful above all in the point of its distance in which shape a splendid one goes them, flanked from mountains.
 According to ancient writings, it has been founded on the river of the Dâmboviţa river in the 1459 from Vlad Tepes. Its name is made to go back to that one of shepherdesses called Bucur, than in Rumanian it means "allegro", "happy"; for this reason Bucharest can be translate like "city of the joy".
 During the second half of XIX the century, the population of Bucharest has grown a lot quickly. The outlandish architecture and the cosmopolita cultural atmosphere of the age gave the name of Paris of the east to the city, but the social differences between an crescent wealthy rank and the mass of poor continued to grow.

 In 6 December of 1916, the city was occupied from the German forces and the understood one it was transferred them to Iaşi, but the city finally was freed in the December of 1918, being converted in the understood one them of the new Reign of Romania.
 Bucharest has suffered large losses during the Second World war because of the strafings from part of England and the United States. 8 November 1945, the Communists joints to the power with the support of USSR abolished the monarchy establishing one popular dictatorship of Soviet stamp.
 During the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauşescu, an important part of the historical center of the city, included some its ancient churches, have been destroyed, and have been replaced with buildings and typical quarters of stilemi communist. Of this age it is the civic Center and Palace of the People, today center of the Parliament (palace of the dictators), that it is reputation to be extended building to the world, after the Pentagon.

 Legend of Dracula
 Is born also the legend of Dracula, important for this country, in how much represents a history piece of the city.
 Said Dracula also Vlad the impalatore, was the son of Vlad Dracul (1436-1442; 1443-1447) and grandson of Mircea Old (1386-1418). Vlad Dracul came name defender of the Order of the Dragoni from the king of the Ungheresi.Each member of this order had represents to you, on dressed theirs, a dragone and from Devil derives the nickname of Dracul (Devil). Vlad the emperor used to sign as Draculea or Draculya - the son of the devil -, name that was transformed in Dracula. The reputation of Dracula caught up attention from the Sason the city of the Transilvania Brasov (Kronstadt) and Sibiu (Hermannstadt), than often they granted to shelter to those who reclamed the throne of the Wallachia.

 To avoid the danger to lose its throne, Vlad wanted to punish the Sasons. Sibiu and its outskirtses were destroyed and burn to you and many sasons were necesary. Same fate understood to the merchants sasons that they went for transactions to Targoviste. Of fact, Vlad was nicknamed Tepes (the emperor) only after its dead women (1476). Government the Wallachia between 1456-1462 and in 1476. In 1462, Vlad was defeated from the Turks and it was forced to shelter themselves in Hungary. In 1476 with the aid of the king of Hungary Mattia Corvino and Prince di Moldavia Stefano the Large one, Vlad resumed the power of the Valacchia for a month. The battle that you follow, saw the dead women of Vlad. Vlad was buried in the church of the Monastero di Snagov, in a island close to Bucharest. Its body lies in front of the altar.
 Legend and history of Dracula lives again through the tourist goals like the Monastery of Snagov to Bucharest or the Castle of Bran, close Brasov.