At 1pm, I embarked in a sightseeing route. First place, Museum of Romanian Peasant, a folklore museum located at the northern side of the city. Entry fee is only 2 lei for student, and the guide think I am a student and there is no way to communicate that I am already long past student era. There are lots of folklore display especially on the various craft of the Orthodox cross, the traditional costumes and the colorful glass window with religious design. The highlights of this museum is the Communist exhibition, which has the only surviving portraits of Ceausescu, several thoughtful Lenin's and heart-rending accounts of those who objected to collectivization. Oh yeah, also an interesting table with some peeled peanut shells leftover.
After that I head to Herãstrãu Lake where the Press Centre can be seen opposite the lake, which many lovers, kissing passionately in the park, kids running around, old Romanian men and women either sitting down staring at nothing or walking slowing with a typical Russian mink hat. We drive through the Triumphal Arch. Based on Paris’s name sake monument, is 11m-tall was built between 1935 and 1936 to commemorate the reunification of Romania in 1918.
Then we drive further along Seseaua Kiseleff and the enormous Press House (Casa Presei Libere). It has a 1956 Stalinist, wedding cake structure. The Press House gave a clear message to the citizens of Bucharest – Big Brother is watching you ! Symbol of the powerful Communist regime.
Conclusion, a city with past glory that can never return...
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