Dorobanți is a neighborhood in Sector 1,

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. The neighborhood is dominated by red brick buildings and glass buildings. Main intersections/squares are Perla, Dorobanți Square, ,

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, and Quito Square. Main streets are , Iancu de Hunedoara Avenue, Lascăr Catargiu Boulevard, and a small part of Ștefan cel Mare Boulevard. The district features many embassy buildings, and local cafés are regarded as meeting places of Bucharest's

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History

''Calea Dorobanți'' is one of the oldest streets with heavy traffic in Bucharest. The area around the street was designed and built as an exclusive district. The current name was given to the street in 1878, after the

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, as a tribute to the Romanian infantry troops (''Dorobanți'' in Romanian) who fought at Pleven,

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and

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. The street runs from to the south to Dorobanți Square to the north. In 1947, the Zambaccian Museum was founded in the neighbourhood.

Borders

Dorobanți neighborhood is delimited in the south by Piața Romană, in the south-east by Mihai Eminescu Street, in the east by Polonă Street, Floreasca Avenue, and the

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district, in the north-east by Primăverii neighborhood, in the north by

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neighborhood, in the west by Aviatorilor Avenue and Victory Square, and in the south-west by Lascăr Catargiu Avenue.

Transport

* There are four metro stations, one located in each corner of the neighborhood: Aviatorilor in the north; Victoriei on the west; Romană in the south; and Ștefan cel Mare in the east. * Bucharest Transit Corporation ( RATB) lines 331, 301, 131, 282, 182, 330, 684, 335, and 783 and a tram-line serve this district.

Gallery

Image:Dorobanti001.jpg, Visarion Orthodox Church Image:Dorobanti003.jpg, Greek-Catholic Cathedral of Saint Basil the Great in Strada Polonă Image:Dorobanti004.jpg, Broșteanu Orthodox Church File:Appartment_blocks_in_Dorobanti_quarter.JPG, Apartment blocks in Dorobanți File:Blocul Zodiac.jpg, Zodiac building, on Calea Dorobanților File:Casa Maria Lahovary 02.jpg, Maria Lahovary house, on Calea Dorobanților

References

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