National Military Club
Grand army palace with ornate halls, raised on the site of a vanished miracle-icon monastery.
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This audio guide to the National Military Circle in Bucharest turns to the monastery of Sărindar that once stood on this corner, and to the miracle-working icon of the Virgin that drew pilgrims, the sick, and princes' processions here. It touches a nineteenth-century Easter liturgy, a diplomat's eyewitness account of torches in the road, and the leaning towers that worried the city's architects. Best heard by the fountain in front of the palace.
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