Hanul Gabroveni
Restored merchants' inn with a brick commercial passage, now a cultural centre with concert halls.
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This guide to Hanul Gabroveni in Bucharest's Old Town follows the money through one city lot, from Bulgarian merchants out of Gabrovo to the Lipscani traders who dealt in goods from Leipzig. You'll meet Tudor Hagi Tudorache, one of the best-known merchants of his day, and the great fire of March eighteen forty-seven. Listen from inside the passage, close enough to touch the brick walls.
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