National Bank of Romania
Eclectic nineteenth-century bank palace on an old princely inn site, now home to a numismatic museum.
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This guide to the National Bank of Romania in Bucharest starts at its heavy palace on Lipscani Street, opened in 1890, then moves to the winter of 1916, when German troops approached the city and the bank's reserves were sent away by train. You'll meet the director who travelled with it, and the two keys he carried. Best heard on the pavement across from the main facade.
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