Hanu' lui Manuc
Early nineteenth-century merchant inn with carved wooden galleries around a vast courtyard.
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This guide to Hanu' lui Manuc in Bucharest looks at the inn as a physical object: the khan an Armenian merchant and diplomat, Manuc Bey, raised for traders in the early eighteen hundreds, and the sheer load of cellars, shops and rooms he asked it to carry. It follows the building through the earthquakes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the repair crews of the late nineteen sixties. Best heard standing in the courtyard, looking up at the carved gallery.
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