Cișmigiu Garden
Romantic lakeside garden with rowboats in summer, an ice rink in winter and centuries-old plane trees.
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This guide to Cișmigiu Garden in Bucharest starts on the lake in the winter of eighteen eighty-three, the season the water froze over by itself and the city found a use for it. It reaches back to a merchant's marshy fishing pool, to the wells a Wallachian ruler ordered dug in seventeen seventy-nine, and to the fountain-keeper whose job gave the garden its name. Best heard standing at the water's edge.
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