The lake
Boats for hire and paths around it.
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Generally yes, and violent crime against foreigners is very rare. The care needed is practical rather than about safety: **pickpocketing** on crowded metros and trams and in tourist areas; **taxis** hailed in the street that may multiply the fare — use an app. **Stray dogs** were once a serious problem and have been greatly reduced but still exist on the outskirts. **Pavements** are broken in many places with cars parked on them, so watch your footing at night. Lipscani after midnight is loud and drunken — not dangerous, but not comfortable for a family.
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Tineretului — the park of youth — is among Bucharest's largest, running across about eighty hectares south of the centre around an artificial lake and low hills. The story of its making is not often told: the site was the **city's rubbish dump** until the 1960s, then filled, planted and turned into a park that opened in 1974. One of Bucharest's largest green spaces today, in other words, stands on its worst ground. What is in it: a lake with boats for hire, walking and running paths, large playgrounds, a small funfair and wide stretches of grass. At one end is the **Sala Polivalentă** sports arena. The park is thoroughly local — used daily by the surrounding neighbourhoods and rarely seen in a guidebook. That is the reason to go, if it matters to you to see the city as its people live it rather than as it is presented. **Free and always open**, with a metro station of the same name at its entrance.
Boats for hire and paths around it.
Among the largest in Bucharest.
Parcul Tineretului, southern Bucharest