Walking around Herastrau Park (King Mihai I Park)

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The walk starts from the North road entrance (Map: [ Ссылка ] ) and continues along the lake to the Triumphal Arch (minute 59 of the video) to the national television and back from the starting point.

This park is very beautiful in spring time and it's situated in the north part of the city, not very close to the downtown but very well connected. Inside the park there's a lake and many places that sell food and beverages, many playgrounds for kids, restaurants and cafes. It's perfect to have a walk in total relax outside the hectic capital!

I think is the biggest park in Bucharest and one of the most beautiful.

Also here you can find the Hard Rock Cafe (map [ Ссылка ] ), , the Village Museum and many tennis fields, and a hotel with a restaurant inside de park.

At the min 59 you can see Arch of Triumph which is a monument for the heroes of the war of independence and World War I 1936, located in the northern part of Bucharest, on the Kiseleff Road.
The first, wooden, triumphal arch was built hurriedly, after Romania gained its independence (1878), so that the victorious troops could march under it. Another arch with concrete skeleton and plaster exterior of elaborate sculptures and decoration designed by Petre Antonescu was built on the same site after World War I in 1922. The arch exterior, which had seriously decayed, was replaced in 1935 by the current much more sober Neoclassical design, more closely modelled in the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The new arch, also designed by Petre Antonescu and executed in stone, was inaugurated on 1 December 1936.
The arch has a height of 27 metres. It has as its foundation a 25 x 11.50 metres rectangle. The sculptures with which the facades are decorated were created by famous Romanian sculptors such as Ion Jalea and Dimitrie Paciurea.
Presently, military parades are held beneath the arch each 1 December, with the occasion of Romania's national holiday.
Elisabeta Palace, the current residence of the Romanian Royal Family, is located near the Arch of Triumph, in Herăstrău Park.

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