The Patriarchal Cathedral
Seventeenth-century Orthodox cathedral and patriarchal seat on a hilltop, beside a princely bell tower.
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This guide to the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest turns on a June evening in eighteen sixty-two, when Romania's first Prime Minister, Barbu Catargiu, climbed into a borrowed carriage after a session of the assembly on this hill. It follows the police, the politicians and the rumours that came after, in a country barely united. Best heard standing near the old bell tower at the entrance to the complex.
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