Old Town
Pedestrian merchant quarter of cobbled lanes, old inns, churches and lively bars and terraces.
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This guide to Bucharest's Old Town follows Manuc Bey, an Armenian grain merchant reputed to be the richest man in the Balkans, in the year his patron in Istanbul fell from power. It moves through the trade-named streets of the old merchant quarter, the caravanserai inn he raised nearby, and the war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Best heard on Lipscani, then again in the galleried courtyard of Manuc's Inn on Franceză Street.
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