Palatul Cantacuzino

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Palatul Cantacuzino
The Cantacuzino Palace

The Cantacuzino Palace

Data
place Bucharest
architect John D. Berindey
Client Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino
Architectural style Neo-baroque
Construction year 1909
Coordinates 44 ° 26 '55.5 "  N , 26 ° 5' 18.1"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 26 '55.5 "  N , 26 ° 5' 18.1"  E

The Cantacuzino Palace is located at Calea Victoriei number 141 in Bucharest , Romania . Since 1956 it has housed the George Enescu Memorial Museum.

history

The building was built by the architect John D. Berindey in neo- baroque style for the former President of the Council of Ministers Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino , who was nicknamed “Nababul” because of his fabulous wealth. After “Nababul's” death he bequeathed the building to his son Michael, who died in 1929 and left it to his wife Maruca, who married George Enescu in December 1939 .

In 1956 a memorial museum was set up in the castle in honor of the greatest Romanian composer George Enescu, which has been called the National Museum George Enescu since 1990 .

description

The building, which is a listed building, has four levels: a basement , a ground floor with arched windows and stone banisters, an upper floor with French balconies and a richly decorated attic. The facade is dominated by the entrance portal, which is covered by a shell-shaped glass roof, to which a marble staircase lined with two stone lions leads up.

photos

  • Entrance with the two lions

  • Attic

  • Glass roof

  • inside view

  • Entrance portal

  • Detail view

  • entrance

  • overall view

Web links

Commons : Palatul Cantacuzino  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • www.georgeenescu.ro , history and description of the Cantacuzino Palace on the website of the National Museum George Enescu (Romanian)
  • www.historia.ro , Ciprian Plăiaşu: Insight into the eventful history of the Cantacuzino Palace (Romanian)