Bucharest used to look really good before but then it was bombed in WW2, went through a horrible earthquake in 1977 and during the regime the commies mutilated the city by demolishing old beautiful historical buildings and replacing them with commie flats, they did this in most cities in Romania, especially outside of Transylvania. Then from 1989 to early 2000s Romania experienced an abrupt and chaotic transition to democracy. In 1990 it used to be the second poorest country in Europe after Albania and now there are 10-11 poorer countries in Europe. In conclusion Romania is a young country when it comes to democracy reason why you'll see that our infrastructure, urban landscaping and salaries are not top notch like in Western Europe but we are on the right path and things are changing slowly. Also during our history we were always fighting different empires in order to survive and keep our identity, due to this fact and due to our geographical position we basically did not have just as much time to progress, colonize other continents and get rich like most Western European countries.
It's true, we lost a lot of historical buildings, but much of the area which was demolished was also a chaotic mess of poorly planned infrastructure. I don't mind the construction of modern buildings, but the historical ones should have been preserved.
Flavius... I don't think it's our nature to go colonize other territories. We usually the peaceful type of people! Except from when Germany got us embroiled in a war situation, I'm sure only pollies wanted...I don't know when we'd gone after someone's piece of land?!... We prefered to let it be. We let go of many of our treasures, including the gold treasures (which went from Russia to Germany/France, and got lost in thin air?) & Moldova, Basarabia, Snake Island, and even Transylvannia - at some point! We lost a lot to greedy b...ds! On the other hand, how many tribes and empires tried to stomp on us and even conquered us in the past?!
Background music: „Leliță Săftiță” (Madam Săftiţa) is a Romanian folk written by Anton Pann with a strong Byzantine influence, most likely written at the beginning of the 19th century
Bucharest has a lot to offer. There are many monuments and historical buildings in the capital, which are extremely beautiful. To name a few: CEC bank, Caru' cu Bere, Hanul lui Manuc, Stavropoleos Church, Mihai Voda Church (the only church built in his time in Bucharest 1594), Atheneu Palace, National Museum of Art (built by King Carol the 2nd to be his seat of power), Hotel Cismigiu, Hotel Capsa and so many other incredible buildings. The secret to enjoying Bucharest is to take a walk through the center and stop and really look at each individual building. It's a place where many different styles from across Europe and the Middle East come together. That's the reason I love this city so much and I think is underrated by many (especially other Romanians).
@@m1ke841 Aici era vorba de Bucuresti ca oras turistic. Cand vine vorba de a locui in el se schimba lucrurile. Conteaza si zona in care locuiesti. Si nu-mi vorbi cu "coaie", te rog, ca nu-mi place.
Thank you for the beautiful song in romanian and the fact 🥰🥰🥰 thank you so much for this beautiful video! This song makes me cry !! Yes! And in the bigest park in Bucharest " Herăstrău " you would fing an alee with M.j name & a plaque for M.j 😁
@@stefandinu6389 Well, the budget for health is over 8 billion dollars, while church gets 80 millions a year (so only 1% of what health receives), and the majority of the money from health are actually stolen by local barons such as Hrebenciuc (whose wealth is over 1 billion dollars) or Duicu (who got caught stealing 75% of the funds allocated for Mehedinti for hospitals). To say that we have no hospitals because of the money that we give to church is like saying that adding 1% to health would dramatically improve the situation. That s the brilliant plan? To take the 80 million that we give to the church and to give them to people like Duicu, alongside the other 8 billion? :)
My advice for you guys is to pay more attention to the period of the Kingdom here in Romania and less of the Communist one. the Kingdom is much less known outside and it has vastly more to offer as far as historical and cultural relevance and the Communist period was ever able to provide. If you can find tours on the Kingdom, go for it, it's a true historical hidden gen. Visit the Triumphant Arch, the Royal Palace (currently the National Art Museum) where the historical areas can be visited as well as the Throne Room, visit the National History Museum (where you can see for example the Crown of the Kings of Romania which, as far as I know is the only steel crown made after the Medieval Era and that particular piece of steel out of which the Crown is made has a fabulous piece of history and acts of arms tied to it), visit the Elisabeta Palace, the current Residence of the Romanian Royal Family, King Carol I Park where you will also see the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Cișmigiu Park, the University of Bucharest (which was inaugurated on 4th of July, 1864, by degree of Crown Prince Alexandru-Ioan Cuza) as well as the University's Central Library (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară - BCU) constructed at the order of King Carol I. The vast majority of Bucharest (as well as other cities and regions in the country) are a result of the period of the Kingdom. If able go and visit the mountain region, it is amazingly beautiful! Go to Sinaia, Sibiu, Sighișoara, Brașov amazing cities. And forget "Dracula's Castle"... that's a tourist trap XD (one which makes us a tone of money... but a tourist trap... If you go there go there for the actual Bran Castle and learn about its actual history which is MUCH more interesting, see Corvin Castle, Cantacuzino Castle (yes, the same Cantacuzino Family which were Emperors of the Byzantine Empire) and Peleș and Pelișor Castles which are the Summer Residence and Seat of the Romanian Royal Family. Communism is a dark part of history which has little to offer, steer to more interesting stuff... both modern and even more older.... if you know where to look you can go back more than 2.000 years back in time to the Roman Empire ;) Enjoy your stay here you two!
This is so helpful!! We would love to come back and learn more about other time periods, especially more about that one with the monarchy! Also, we have had so many tell us that Brasov and the surrounding areas are beautiful. Thank you for sharing this! 😄
Glad to see more youtubers promoting a deserving yet underrated space which is Romania. You cld also tick ✅ more Rom. locations which are just as outstanding! I'm taking tips from another group of youtubers, the Romaniacs, for future refs... Thanks and goodluck with your channel! 📲🤳
_Ciao_ , is an italian word, but it's acceptable and used by Romanians as such, particularly since they moved and worked in Italy for the last 3 decades, i suppose...
"overwhelmingly extravagant" that's exactly what my mom said (but in romanian) in the 80's when we saw on tv what they were doing in Bucharest. At the time, I thought it was just a very big, ugly building built by a dictatorial peasant with bombastic personality but now, after I visited it and knowing romanian history, I think that it's not a palace but a fortress. Most of the building is underground, capable of resisting atomic blats, of hosting thousands of people, has tunnels for driving cars under the 'palace' over six kilometers long, etc. It's a fortress that actually reflects architecturally very well Ceausescu's delusions of grandeur, the poverty/misery felt by Romanians during those times and the ugliness of tyranny
for this stupid building it was destroyed a big big quarter and a lot of people were forced to leave their home in case not a construct machine enter in their home
Building was not _stupid_ ! It is an attraction now and it attracts tourists. Sad it is though, that past and current goverments do not put it to use, to lease it to other organisations, or make more money than these tour guiding might achieve! They need to put their _business heads_ to us, unless they want it to go down to ruin!
Alexandru. Yes. It was sad what happened to people, but they were given other facilities. In communist romania, no one was left behind, with no job or no shelter, unless they did not want to work - in which case they were picked off street and probably given a _hiding_ ! I hope you remember there was no homelessness, no drugs, and little to no crimes. It's true, after '80-'81, there was food _penuria_ and most had to rely on bribes... That was the time!! What happens today? We have democracy, but - i bet - ppl suffer worse crisis today, than 33 years ago, and it is all down to silly alligences and world division. We should all strive for peace on the globe, not segregation, no wars, no hate! We should not build military equipment, b/c yes: ppl kill, but they wld not if they had no guns, no ammos! Strive for Peace & diplomacy! No one wins if you provoke and sustain war!!
Not struggling to put food on the table, the 80s were much worse than that. The basics, bread, sugar, flour, vegetable oil, butter, meat were rationalized and very limited. Oranges and bananas, only during Xmas if you got lucky and after waiting in line for 2h. Toilet paper sometimes impossible to find. Heat, hot water in the winter, very limited. Power would go down in the winter in the evening to save electricity. TV, 2 channels a few hours per day, more on Sundays and almost all TVs were black and white - upside, no commercials. Only 2-3 types of soda, 1 type of chewing gum, 2 types of ice cream, very hard to find coffee, milk if you wait in line at 5 am. Local fruits and vegetables easy to find and afford when in season. Most common small bribes, coffee or cigs, valuable currency lol. It's not really that people were starving but was very hard to find a lot of essential things. I suppose Cuba is kind a like that today, you can't find much in stores.
That moment when 2 US citizens have the audacity to call extravagance and "unnecessary " rugs acquisitions to some small Europeean country. 😄😄😄 It îs almost funny.
James, they're sure they did, but maybe not big-time-show-offs.!? Give ppl time to get confident, and don't give them a taste of "romanian criticism"; yes, Romanians can be a bit of a nag (if i said it right)!🙈
Brasov, Sibiu, Sighisoara - those are amazing old medieval towns. :) Bukarest sucks compared to those. :) Trust me. Transylvania is awesome. Southern Romania not so much. It's just a big flat terrain. :)
Man, I can understand that you love Transilvania.,but Bucharest is far away from the rest of the country, in a good way !. You are romanian and you don`t know anything about your own country ,no offence! South part of Romania have one of the most beautiful landscape and mountain areas in Romania. Take a look about Gorj,Valcea,Mehedinti etc . Did you ever heard about Transalpina? So, please,do not make comments when you don`t know about what you are talking about... !
My apologies for all the dumbazzes on here blasting you for not pronouncing certain names or words with a Latin accent or who are just plain rude. We have our own idiots... Hope you really enjoyed the visit! Thanks! 🍺🍻
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We need big bells to scare all the vampires away😂
I love the song from the beginning! Anton Pan! Very classical old music!
very nice! im adding Bucharest to my travel bucket list😍
It’s a special place with some great people. You have to go!
Bucharest used to look really good before but then it was bombed in WW2, went through a horrible earthquake in 1977 and during the regime the commies mutilated the city by demolishing old beautiful historical buildings and replacing them with commie flats, they did this in most cities in Romania, especially outside of Transylvania. Then from 1989 to early 2000s Romania experienced an abrupt and chaotic transition to democracy. In 1990 it used to be the second poorest country in Europe after Albania and now there are 10-11 poorer countries in Europe. In conclusion Romania is a young country when it comes to democracy reason why you'll see that our infrastructure, urban landscaping and salaries are not top notch like in Western Europe but we are on the right path and things are changing slowly. Also during our history we were always fighting different empires in order to survive and keep our identity, due to this fact and due to our geographical position we basically did not have just as much time to progress, colonize other continents and get rich like most Western European countries.
It's true, we lost a lot of historical buildings, but much of the area which was demolished was also a chaotic mess of poorly planned infrastructure. I don't mind the construction of modern buildings, but the historical ones should have been preserved.
Flavius... I don't think it's our nature to go colonize other territories. We usually the peaceful type of people! Except from when Germany got us embroiled in a war situation, I'm sure only pollies wanted...I don't know when we'd gone after someone's piece of land?!... We prefered to let it be. We let go of many of our treasures, including the gold treasures (which went from Russia to Germany/France, and got lost in thin air?) & Moldova, Basarabia, Snake Island, and even Transylvannia - at some point! We lost a lot to greedy b...ds! On the other hand, how many tribes and empires tried to stomp on us and even conquered us in the past?!
Background music: „Leliță Săftiță” (Madam Săftiţa) is a Romanian folk written by Anton Pann with a strong Byzantine influence, most likely written at the beginning of the 19th century
Îmi place melodia foarte mult, m a bușit plânsul. Ce folclor minunat avem.🥰🥰🥰 Dumnezeu să ne apere pe toți.
Bucharest has a lot to offer. There are many monuments and historical buildings in the capital, which are extremely beautiful. To name a few: CEC bank, Caru' cu Bere, Hanul lui Manuc, Stavropoleos Church, Mihai Voda Church (the only church built in his time in Bucharest 1594), Atheneu Palace, National Museum of Art (built by King Carol the 2nd to be his seat of power), Hotel Cismigiu, Hotel Capsa and so many other incredible buildings. The secret to enjoying Bucharest is to take a walk through the center and stop and really look at each individual building. It's a place where many different styles from across Europe and the Middle East come together. That's the reason I love this city so much and I think is underrated by many (especially other Romanians).
Coaie Bucurestiu nici nu are apa calda in plm degeaba ai monumente cand nu ai un oras functional
@@m1ke841 Aici era vorba de Bucuresti ca oras turistic. Cand vine vorba de a locui in el se schimba lucrurile. Conteaza si zona in care locuiesti. Si nu-mi vorbi cu "coaie", te rog, ca nu-mi place.
@@chris200830 Bine "coaie"
Well done for promoting Romania!!❤🙏❤
Thank you for the beautiful song in romanian and the fact 🥰🥰🥰 thank you so much for this beautiful video! This song makes me cry !! Yes! And in the bigest park in Bucharest " Herăstrău " you would fing an alee with M.j name & a plaque for M.j 😁
Send you love from Bucharest!
You made our day! We can’t wait to come back. 😄
@@joshuaandalexa 🥰🥰
Waw❤
Out country is very Beautiful and on the Time of ceausescu Time everybody Had a nice live Now is geting Beter and Beter as the Time pass
*Near the Palace, the biggest Cathedral of the wolrd is now ready !!*
Yay,who needs schools and modern hospitals right? Or highways? Or economic growth? Those are overrated anyway.
@@stefandinu6389 your idols those corrupt politicians from usrplus constructed a lot of those You mentioned above
@@stefandinu6389 exactly
@@stefandinu6389 Well, the budget for health is over 8 billion dollars, while church gets 80 millions a year (so only 1% of what health receives), and the majority of the money from health are actually stolen by local barons such as Hrebenciuc (whose wealth is over 1 billion dollars) or Duicu (who got caught stealing 75% of the funds allocated for Mehedinti for hospitals). To say that we have no hospitals because of the money that we give to church is like saying that adding 1% to health would dramatically improve the situation. That
s the brilliant plan? To take the 80 million that we give to the church and to give them to people like Duicu, alongside the other 8 billion? :)
Music: Barbu Lăutarul
My advice for you guys is to pay more attention to the period of the Kingdom here in Romania and less of the Communist one. the Kingdom is much less known outside and it has vastly more to offer as far as historical and cultural relevance and the Communist period was ever able to provide.
If you can find tours on the Kingdom, go for it, it's a true historical hidden gen. Visit the Triumphant Arch, the Royal Palace (currently the National Art Museum) where the historical areas can be visited as well as the Throne Room, visit the National History Museum (where you can see for example the Crown of the Kings of Romania which, as far as I know is the only steel crown made after the Medieval Era and that particular piece of steel out of which the Crown is made has a fabulous piece of history and acts of arms tied to it), visit the Elisabeta Palace, the current Residence of the Romanian Royal Family, King Carol I Park where you will also see the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Cișmigiu Park, the University of Bucharest (which was inaugurated on 4th of July, 1864, by degree of Crown Prince Alexandru-Ioan Cuza) as well as the University's Central Library (Biblioteca Centrală Universitară - BCU) constructed at the order of King Carol I.
The vast majority of Bucharest (as well as other cities and regions in the country) are a result of the period of the Kingdom.
If able go and visit the mountain region, it is amazingly beautiful! Go to Sinaia, Sibiu, Sighișoara, Brașov amazing cities. And forget "Dracula's Castle"... that's a tourist trap XD (one which makes us a tone of money... but a tourist trap... If you go there go there for the actual Bran Castle and learn about its actual history which is MUCH more interesting, see Corvin Castle, Cantacuzino Castle (yes, the same Cantacuzino Family which were Emperors of the Byzantine Empire) and Peleș and Pelișor Castles which are the Summer Residence and Seat of the Romanian Royal Family.
Communism is a dark part of history which has little to offer, steer to more interesting stuff... both modern and even more older.... if you know where to look you can go back more than 2.000 years back in time to the Roman Empire ;)
Enjoy your stay here you two!
This is so helpful!! We would love to come back and learn more about other time periods, especially more about that one with the monarchy! Also, we have had so many tell us that Brasov and the surrounding areas are beautiful. Thank you for sharing this! 😄
@@joshuaandalexa A return will be well worth it ;) Hope to see videos of it in the future!
Great Romania 1918 🥳
The link of music please ? 😀
P.S.: You do a very good job, keep going ! We want more ❤️
Glad to see more youtubers promoting a deserving yet underrated space which is Romania. You cld also tick ✅ more Rom. locations which are just as outstanding! I'm taking tips from another group of youtubers, the Romaniacs, for future refs... Thanks and goodluck with your channel! 📲🤳
.Ciao.Good job.
_Ciao_ , is an italian word, but it's acceptable and used by Romanians as such, particularly since they moved and worked in Italy for the last 3 decades, i suppose...
"overwhelmingly extravagant" that's exactly what my mom said (but in romanian) in the 80's when we saw on tv what they were doing in Bucharest. At the time, I thought it was just a very big, ugly building built by a dictatorial peasant with bombastic personality but now, after I visited it and knowing romanian history, I think that it's not a palace but a fortress. Most of the building is underground, capable of resisting atomic blats, of hosting thousands of people, has tunnels for driving cars under the 'palace' over six kilometers long, etc. It's a fortress that actually reflects architecturally very well Ceausescu's delusions of grandeur, the poverty/misery felt by Romanians during those times and the ugliness of tyranny
great video! Thanks for sharing, do you mind sharing the name of the background song?
what was the song at the begining of the video?
Anton Pann - Lelita Saftita
" Pa" or " La revedere" is Bye or See you soon🥰🥰🥰😁
for this stupid building it was destroyed a big big quarter and a lot of people were forced to leave their home in case not a construct machine enter in their home
How can help me to come romania and work so
Building was not _stupid_ ! It is an attraction now and it attracts tourists. Sad it is though, that past and current goverments do not put it to use, to lease it to other organisations, or make more money than these tour guiding might achieve! They need to put their _business heads_ to us, unless they want it to go down to ruin!
Alexandru. Yes. It was sad what happened to people, but they were given other facilities. In communist romania, no one was left behind, with no job or no shelter, unless they did not want to work - in which case they were picked off street and probably given a _hiding_ ! I hope you remember there was no homelessness, no drugs, and little to no crimes. It's true, after '80-'81, there was food _penuria_ and most had to rely on bribes... That was the time!! What happens today? We have democracy, but - i bet - ppl suffer worse crisis today, than 33 years ago, and it is all down to silly alligences and world division. We should all strive for peace on the globe, not segregation, no wars, no hate! We should not build military equipment, b/c yes: ppl kill, but they wld not if they had no guns, no ammos! Strive for Peace & diplomacy! No one wins if you provoke and sustain war!!
You should go visit Transilvania
♥️💛💙 Brașov,the best !!! ♥️💛💙
We’re going to Brașov soon!! Any recommendations? 😄🇷🇴
Yes ! He build for him this palace but we the ppl sturved, we didn ' t have light, t.v , food , hot water, etc and he lived in luxury 😔
Not struggling to put food on the table, the 80s were much worse than that. The basics, bread, sugar, flour, vegetable oil, butter, meat were rationalized and very limited. Oranges and bananas, only during Xmas if you got lucky and after waiting in line for 2h. Toilet paper sometimes impossible to find. Heat, hot water in the winter, very limited. Power would go down in the winter in the evening to save electricity. TV, 2 channels a few hours per day, more on Sundays and almost all TVs were black and white - upside, no commercials. Only 2-3 types of soda, 1 type of chewing gum, 2 types of ice cream, very hard to find coffee, milk if you wait in line at 5 am. Local fruits and vegetables easy to find and afford when in season. Most common small bribes, coffee or cigs, valuable currency lol. It's not really that people were starving but was very hard to find a lot of essential things. I suppose Cuba is kind a like that today, you can't find much in stores.
This is the 2nd biggest place in the world after the Pentagon 👍
The third one now. The Chinese built a bigger one recently, but still the heaviest one.
That moment when 2 US citizens have the audacity to call extravagance and "unnecessary " rugs acquisitions to some small Europeean country. 😄😄😄
It îs almost funny.
Hahaha 😅
Our culture is definitely no stranger to excess. We were speaking more from a personal view, but you make a great point.
Shocking you didn’t pick up some basic Romanian words like pa, or la revedere, 😂😂 which hotel did you stay at?
We stayed at an Airbnb. It was an apartment right by the Piata Romana!
James, they're sure they did, but maybe not big-time-show-offs.!? Give ppl time to get confident, and don't give them a taste of "romanian criticism"; yes, Romanians can be a bit of a nag (if i said it right)!🙈
It's Ceausescu ( Ceaushescu) not Ceaucescu (Ceauchescu)
He's not Latin. Give him a break!
I hope you take the message of small government back to the US. There are way too many people that are drinking the socialism coolaid over there.
Locals hate that church..
Hey there! What do you mean?
Try going to Brasov and Cluj! Bucharest is not for tourists, trust me you haven't seen the real Romania yet!
We’re going to Brașov soon!! Any recommendations? 😄🇷🇴
Brasov, Sibiu, Sighisoara - those are amazing old medieval towns. :) Bukarest sucks compared to those. :) Trust me. Transylvania is awesome. Southern Romania not so much. It's just a big flat terrain. :)
Man, I can understand that you love Transilvania.,but Bucharest is far away from the rest of the country, in a good way !. You are romanian and you don`t know anything about your own country ,no offence! South part of Romania have one of the most beautiful landscape and mountain areas in Romania. Take a look about Gorj,Valcea,Mehedinti etc . Did you ever heard about Transalpina? So, please,do not make comments when you don`t know about what you are talking about... !
You do know half of the Southern Carpathians are in Wallachia, yes?
We’re going to Brașov soon!! Any recommendations? 😄🇷🇴
You are such ignorants...the domes are not covered in pure gold...actually they Have nothing to do with gold... Only the colour that imitates gold...
Multiple sources have pointed to the gold designs incorporating real gold leaf. What source are you seeing that says otherwise?
@@joshuaandalexa yeah, multiple marxist and leftists sources ...well , my source is the company that constructed that
@@cristianmate6712 Please share your source! I’d love to read more about it.
@@joshuaandalexa don't bother mate.... obedient believer there :)))
@@alakntvr7179 sper ca e atat de obedient incat sa se fi injectat poate face cheagu si crapa :))))
Little content very boring.
My apologies for all the dumbazzes on here blasting you for not pronouncing certain names or words with a Latin accent or who are just plain rude. We have our own idiots...
Hope you really enjoyed the visit! Thanks! 🍺🍻
Haha thanks for the kind words. We can’t wait to come back! 😄
children! what is that music? it is most definitely NOT romanian! bulgarian, turkish, martian?
Anton Pann - Lelita Saftita