Central University Library Carol I
Beaux-Arts royal foundation library by a French architect, rebuilt after a devastating fire.
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This audio guide to the Central University Library Carol I in Bucharest asks how old the building in front of you really is. It follows King Carol I's plan for a library that never closed, the French architect Paul Gottereau who drew it and came back to enlarge it, and a December night in 1989 when the revolution reached its roof. Best heard from the pavement facing the main facade.
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