We are FCC - Nº15

To talk about Romania without talking about progress and advancement would be a mistake. This Eastern Eu- ropean country is undoubtedly one of the nations that has obtained and developed the greatest structural per- formance in recent years, especially in its capital, Bucharest. As the indus- trial, commercial and cultural centre of the country, it is undoubtedly a city of contrasts, the result of the various historical events in which the city has been immersed over the centuries. 2,400,000 inhabitants A city that, in addition to being located on the banks of the river Dâmbovița, one of the most recognized in Roma- nia, is home to more than 2,400,000 people, making it the tenth most po- pulous city in the European Union. With Romanian as the official langua - ge, the recent history of Bucharest can be summarized in the progressi- ve adaptation to an environment far from absolutisms and tyrannies, as a result of the mixture of styles and es- sences that, in part, are really appre- ciable in its neoclassical architecture; of inter-wars, such as Bauhaus and Art Deco; or the communist, who took power during the dark dictatorship of General Nicolae Ceausescu, and who in turn destroyed many old buil- dings of relevance, belonging to the bourgeois class. Still known by its nickname “Little Pa- ris”, the city is also one of the main industrial and transport centres of the eastern part of the continent. Althou- gh until 1989 the suburbs and outlying areas were rather rural, the Roma- nian Revolution brought about a ma- Capital of contrasts and progress The river Dâmbovița, a tributary of the Danube River, has its source in the mountains Făgăraș and has a length of 258 km. C O M M U N I T I E S 56 C O M M U N I T I E S