By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (design by Florin Alexandru Stancu)
- Published: Monday, June 15 2015 19:11
This “run after Venus” is another incursion into Bucharest’s history:
on the Lipscani Street (former Great Way), the international commercial street since the 16th century;
near the Saint Vineri Church (it is interesting that Vineri means Friday in Romanian and comes from Veneris, genitive of Venus in Latin), a very important monument founded in the 1640s, demolished by the totalitarian regime in 1987 (this was a national tragedy; it is said that the people who came with candles to protest cursed the communist dictator, who was executed two years later, during the Romanian Revolution), and remade (with a different design and on a different place) after 1990
near the cupola of the new rectorship of the Polytechnic Institute (made in the 1960s)
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