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Sector 1, Bucharest, Romania
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The Dumitru Furnică Minovici Museum of Ancient Western Art houses a collection of paintings, sculpture, and applied and decorative art in a red-brick Gothic Tudor-style mansion that was Minovici's residence
Casa Presei Libere or Free Press House, as the name suggests, houses the offices of newspapers and magazines such as Adevarul, Jurnalul National, Cotidianul, and national news agency Agerpres, which has the largest archive of photographs from Romania
The Charles de Gaulle Square has a statue honoring the first president of the French Fifth Republic
Spread over 10 hectares in the Herăstrău Park on the banks of Lake Herăstrău of the Colentina River, the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum is an open-air ethnographic museum that showcases traditional Romanian rural architecture and lifestyles
Şoseaua Kiseleff is an arterial boulevard running from Victory Square to Casa Presei Libere, along which are major attractions such as the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, National Geology Museum, The Grigore Antipa Natural History Museum, and the Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum
The Arcul de Triumf was built to commemorate Romania's independence
The Primăverii Palace on the banks of Lake Herăstrău was the extravagant residence of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, who occupied the entire block of villas and made it inaccessible to the general public for over 25 years