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So bringing you back to a city I have visited several times and always a nice welcome. Many souvenirs and good friends over the years. Always looking forward to be back. I ,again, found me some older pictures not yet in my blog and they should, Therefore, let me tell you a bit more on the curiosities of Bucharest , part II !!! Hope you enjoy the post as I,

I had my usual visits around and to the Romexpo exhibition center. One of my many target spots in the City on business trips, The largest exhibition center in Romania offers you the opportunity to inform and test the products and services you are interested in, during fairs and exhibitions, .Access to the Romexpo premises can be done by Gates A, B, C – from the Exhibition Boulevard (mine); D-Gate – from the Park Street; and the E – Gate, from Poligrafiei Street. It was also, almost across the street from my branch office in Bucharest !! The official Romexpo exhibition center : https://www.romexpo.ro/en/

The Free Press House is a palace 104 meters high (with its antenna) is another mark of the communist regime. It was built in 5 years and first under the name of Casa Scinteia. It was intended for state press, especially Scânteia (Sparkle) , the newspaper of the former Romanian Communist Party. After the Revolution, it changed to Free Press House and it is used for some local and national publications. It holds the record for the tallest structure in the city between 1956 and 2007, It was completed in 1956, and originally built to house the editorial offices of almost all of the capital’s newspapers and magazines as it was far easier for the censor if they were all in one place. Today carries out pretty much the same function; publishers can rent office space here at a discount , although the dwindling number of print publications in Romania means that a fair amount of the building is empty. The impressive archive of Rompres, the state press and photo agency, is housed here. The ghastly steel structure in front of the building where once a statue of Lenin stood is called Aripi(Wings) and is a monument to all those Romanians who fought against the installation of communism in the late 1940s, and died often in appalling conditions in communist-era prisons. A racetrack was built in 1905 on the future site of the Casa Presei Libere (Free Press House). A third of the racetrack made way in 1950 for the first wing of the building, and the last stands were demolished in 1960. The building was renamed in 1989 Casa Presei Libere or Free Press House , after the fall of the dictatorship and multiplied its functions. The Bucharest Stock Exchange was located in the south wing between 1994 and 1999. In February 1999, it was renamed Compania Națională a Imprimeriilor Coresi or National Printing Company Coresi. The Free Press House  occupies an area of 280 meters by 260 meters, its total constructed area being 32,000 m2 for a volume of 735,000 m3. It measures 91.6 meters high, without the television antenna, which measures 12.4 meters, bringing the total height to 104 meters. Casa Scînteii is the first building to show earthquake resistance, taking into account older Italian standards from the Mussolini era.

The Bucharest tourist office : https://visitbucharest.today/

A nice private initiative on tourism in Romania on Bucharest: http://romaniatourism.com/bucharest.html

There you go folks, something different in Bucharest to marvel at and visit as well. It is a lively city and a quant nice city center. Again, hope you enjoy this post on the curiosities of Bucharest part II !!! as I.

And remember, happy travels, good health, and many cheers to all !!!