Pasajul Victoria
Pedestrian passage strung with colourful umbrellas beneath an abandoned interwar hotel.
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This guide to Pasajul Victoria in Bucharest follows Ovidiu Iancu, director of the company that owned the old Hotel Muntenia above the passage, and his long legal fight with Sector One mayor Andrei Chiliman. It reaches back to the hotel's interwar origins as the Hotel Paris and to the engineers' verdicts that followed the earthquake of nineteen eighty-six. Best heard standing under the umbrellas, looking up at the floors above.
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