Triumphal Arch (Bucharest)

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Triumphal Arch in Bucharest

Arcul de Triumf is a triumphal arch in the Romanian capital Bucharest .

The building was named in honor of the triumph in World War I built. A first forerunner was provisionally made of wood in 1878, after the country gained independence. This building was replaced in 1922 by a larger, still provisional one made of wood and stucco - whereupon the famous Romanian musician and composer George Enescu wrote a mocking letter to the mayor asking when the capital would one day get a real triumphal arch.

The current triumphal arch was completed in 1935 to 1936 by Petre Antonescu based on the model of the Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile in Paris to form a huge building in the classical Roman style and inaugurated on the national holiday on December 1, 1936 - an example of decades of bombastic Provisional arrangements have a long tradition in Bucharest. The Arcul de Triumf is decorated with numerous entries and remarkable reliefs. The outlines are those of a rectangle with a base area of ​​25 × 11.50 m. The opening of the arch is 11 m high and 9.50 m wide.

Well-known sculptors such as Frederic Storck , Ion Jalea and Cornel Medrea contributed to the creation of this monument. As in Paris, the traffic flows in a star shape from a series of large streets towards the mighty arch.

Web links

Commons : Arc de Triomphe (Bucharest)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Wiener Zeitung : Between poverty and megalomania ( Memento from February 7, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Sebastian Bonifaciu, Emanuel Valeriu: Bucharest from A to Z , p. 199, Pontica Handbooks, Publishing House for Tourism, Bucharest (1974)

Coordinates: 44 ° 28 ′ 2.2 "  N , 26 ° 4 ′ 42.1"  E