The royal reliefs
Ferdinand and Marie — Greater Romania in stone.
Rsandu — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Rsandu — CC BY-SA 4.0 · U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Khalan Moore — Public domain · Britchi Mirela — CC BY-SA 4.0
In the late nineteenth century its francophone elite built boulevards and palaces in the Parisian manner, and this arch is its clearest witness.
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"Little Paris" with an arch of its own: the Arcul de Triumf stands mid-way along the tree-lined Kiseleff avenue in the shape of the Paris arch at a slimmer scale — 27 metres of stone raised in 1936 to celebrate Greater Romania after the First World War, following two temporary wooden arches built for parades. Its faces carry reliefs of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie and the names of victories, and an inner stair climbs on national holidays (above all 1 December) to a terrace looking down the avenue to the lake. Usually it is seen from outside; the traffic circle around it is best photographed from the northern pavement. It sits naturally in a northern loop: the Village Museum and Lake Herăstrău are minutes away, the Antipa museum and Ceaușescu's house in either direction.
Ferdinand and Marie — Greater Romania in stone.
The army passes beneath it on National Day.
Piața Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest