Saint Joseph’s Catholic Cathedral
Romanesque-revival brick cathedral seat of the Catholic archbishop, scarred by a century of earthquakes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Saint Joseph's Catholic Cathedral in Bucharest is about the ground under it: a city that shakes, a nineteenth-century church of unreinforced brick and Bulgarian stone, and the earthquakes it has lived through. It then turns to the spring of two thousand six, when a pit opened right beside its walls. Archbishop Ioan Robu, Italian seismologists and the groundwater beneath the city all have a part. Best heard from the forecourt, where you can see both the old walls and their neighbour.
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