După câteva săptămâni de călătorie prin Cehia, Slovacia, Ungaria și România, ne bucurăm acum de frumusețea Parcului Cișmigiu. S-ar putea chiar să ne întâlnim cu câțiva localnici și turiști care gândesc la fel ca noi, pe Podul Mare, pentru un meet & greet inteligent!
Salut - poate și dumneavoastră? Am fi încântați!
After several weeks of travelling through the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, we are now enjoying the beauty of Cișmigiu Park. We might even meet a few like-minded locals and holidaymakers on the Podul Mare for a smart meet & greet!
Salut - maybe you? We would be delighted!
Cișmigiu Park was created at the end of the 18th century. The first works began in 1798 in what is now Bucharest's oldest and most famous park. At that time, the construction of two fountains, the so-called ‘Cișnele’, from which the name ‘Cișmigiu’ was derived, began.
In 1837, the neighbouring marshes around the park area were drained and the work took a decade. The Viennese garden architect Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer was commissioned to create an extended park. Between 1849 and 1860, he had more than 30,000 trees and shrubs planted and built musical arbours, artificial islands, ornamental bridges and a promenade avenue based on the Viennese model. The park was opened to visitors on 22 March 1860.
In 1910, the park was given its final appearance by the garden architect Friedrich Rebhuhn, who remained Bucharest's city garden director for over 30 years (until after the end of the Second World War). He replaced the avenues with their geometric shapes, trimmed poplars and lime trees with a large carpet of flowers in the traditional Romanian carpet pattern, created the ‘Romanian Rondeau’ with the marble busts of six Romanian writers, a playground, a small zoo, boat hire and a restaurant.
Today, Cișmigiu has a French garden, a writers' roundabout, a Roman roundabout, a rose garden and two lakes, the larger Cișmigiu Lake and the smaller Lebedelor Lake.