Tineretului Park
Lakeside park of lawns and wooded paths raised from a marshy hollow, with a ruined manor above the water.
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This guide to Tineretului Park in Bucharest starts at a burned-out manor on the plateau above the lake, and at the rumour that has clung to it for years: that Maria Tănase, the Queen of Romanian Song, once lived inside. It weighs the competing stories about who built the house and what it was for, then digs into the ground beneath it, a marshy hollow locals once called the Valley of Weeping. Best heard with the ruined walls in view.
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