Pasajul Macca-Villacrosse
Pasajul Macca-Vilacrosse ( German Passage Macca-Villacrosse ) is a fork-shaped, yellow glass-covered arcade street in the center of Bucharest , Romania , the construction of which was completed in 1891. The Câmpineanu Inn once stood here .
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After the Catalan architect Xavier Vilacrosse married the daughter of the owner of the inn in 1843, the couple received the inn as a wedding gift and gave it the name of the architect. Towards the end of the 19th century it was demolished and replaced by the two-story passage in Western European style that still stands today.
The two narrow streets are covered with a glass roof so that they offer both natural light and protection from rain at the same time. The ground floor was used for shops, while the rooms on the first floor were rented out. One branch of the passage was called Vilacrosse while the other was called Macca, after Mihalache Macca, the builder's brother. The two ends open onto Calea Victoriei , one of the main streets of Bucharest, the other end towards the National Bank in the old town Lipscani .
Between 1950 and 1990 the passage was called Pasajul bijuteria ('Jeweler Passage'), it was not until the 2010s that it was given the name “Passage Macca-Villacrosse”.
Today the passage is home to several indoor and outdoor dining options including the Egypt bar / restaurant , the Blues Cafe , a bistro, a Chinese restaurant and a wine bar.
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literature
- Birgitta Gabriela Hannover Moser: Bucharest: The Romanian capital and its surroundings. City guide, Tescher Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89794-203-5 .
Web links
- Istoric magazine , La Belle Époque: Pasajul Macca-Villacrosse (Romanian)
- Bucharestian , The Old Town (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Documentar , Emanuel Badescu: Mărirea şi decăderea Pasajului Villacrosse .
Coordinates: 44 ° 25 '59.3 " N , 26 ° 5' 55" E