Știrbei Palace
Nineteenth-century princely palace with a caryatid-crowned corner tower, reborn as a luxury department store.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Știrbei Palace on Bucharest's Calea Victoriei follows one building through a string of very different roles, from the balls of a nineteenth-century Wallachian prince to the museum years under communism. You'll meet the French architect who first built it and the later architect who gave it a new floor and a tower. Best heard from the pavement across the street, where you can see the corner tower clearly.
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