Bucur Church
Small white hilltop chapel with a peasant-style wooden porch and mushroom-shaped dome.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Bucur Church in Bucharest starts with the shepherd said to have grazed his flock by the Dâmbovița and given the city its name, and with the eighteenth-century writers who first put his story on paper. It then turns to the hands that shaped the little white church you see, from a peasant-style porch to stone-carved window frames, and to the argument over how old it really is. Best heard on the slope in front of the porch.
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