Equestrian Statue of Carol I
Bronze equestrian monument to Romania's first king, recreating a lost interwar original on a palace square.
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This guide to the Equestrian Statue of Carol I in Bucharest follows the money behind the bronze king on Revolution Square, from City Hall's payments to sculptor Florin Codre to a newspaper's tally of every statue the city ever bought. It begins on a summer night in two thousand eight, at a foundry in the Colentina district, when a group of men arrived at the gates. Stand facing the rider, with the old royal palace across the road.
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