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Romanian Athenaeum
A domed concert hall of 1888, its auditorium ringed by a painted frieze of Romanian history; hear a concert if you can.
- Open
- Concerts most weeks; tours on some days
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Strada Benjamin Franklin 1–3, 010292 BucharestDirections
- Getting There
- On Revolution Square, off Calea Victoriei.
Why Go
The Athenaeum was paid for by a public appeal, 'Give a leu for the Athenaeum'. Its round hall, home of the George Enescu Philharmonic, has a fresco 75 meters long telling the country's story from the Roman conquest to the union of 1918.
Nearby in Bucharest
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