Calea Victoriei
Historic avenue of palaces, theatres and old cafés, first paved with timber in the seventeenth century.
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This guide to Calea Victoriei in Bucharest follows the street's working life through a family of Aromanian confectioners, the Capșa brothers, who opened a small sweet shop on the old timber-paved road in the mid-nineteenth century. It tracks the younger brother Grigore to a Paris workshop and back, and asks what a confectioner's counter could do for a street's reputation. Along the way you'll hear about the prince who first paved this road, and the writers and actors who treated a coffee house as their club. Best heard near the corner with Edgar Quinet Street.
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