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Capital: Bucharest
Area: 237 500 kmē
Population: 22 474 000
Currency: 1 US$ = Lei
GDP: 97 / 4310$
HDI:  68 / 0,746
CPI  :  - / -

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Bucharest

The 1979 World Petroleum Congress was the occasion for my visit here.

Here is a view of the city from my hotel window.


 

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Bucharest

Bucharest is a large, prosperous looking city with some quite modern buildings in a very poor country.


 

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Bucharest

I took few pictures in those days and I did not bother to record names and details. I can however identify this fine church of the Caldarusani monastery some 40 km from Bucharest, thanks to Florin Ganea who took the time to write me about it.


 

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Bucharest

Here is the monastery surrounding the church in the previous photo.


 

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Countryside

This is one of the better peasant houses that I have seen in the countryside.


 

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Countryside

And here is another.


 

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