Dorobanți is a neighborhood in

Sector 1 Sector 1 is an administrative unit of Bucharest located in the northern part of the city. It contains also the northwestern districts of Băneasa and Pipera. Sector 1 is thought to be the wealthiest sector in Bucharest. Like each of Bucharest sec ...

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. The neighborhood is dominated by red brick buildings and glass buildings. Main intersections/squares are Perla, Dorobanți Square, , Charles de Gaulle Square, and Quito Square. Main streets are , Iancu de Hunedoara Avenue,

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, 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

Romanian War of Independence The Romanian War of Independence () is the name used in Romanian historiography to refer to the phase of the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), in which Romania, fighting on the Russian side of the war, gained independence from the Ottoman Empire. On ...

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

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and

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. The street runs from to the south to Dorobanți Square to the north. The Ion Luca Caragiale National College is located at the northern end of Calea Dorobanți. In 1947, the

Zambaccian Museum The Zambaccian Museum in Bucharest, Romania is a museum in the former home of (1889 –1962), a businessman and art collector. The museum was founded in the Dorobanți neighbourhood in 1947, closed by the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime in 1977, an ...

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

Floreasca Floreasca () is a district in Bucharest, Romania, in Sector 2 (Bucharest), Sector 2. Its name comes from Lake Floreasca, which is situated in the north of the neighborhood. The Floreasca Hospital is also situated in the neighborhood, in its so ...

district, in the north-east by

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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 Stephen III, better known as Stephen the Great (; ; died 2 July 1504), was Voivode (or Prince) of Moldavia from 1457 to 1504. He was the son of and co-ruler with Bogdan II, who was murdered in 1451 in a conspiracy organized by his brother an ...

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 File:Ion Luca Caragiale National College in Bucharest (2).jpg, Ion Luca Caragiale National College, viewed from Dorobanți Square

References

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