Romanian Athenaeum

The Romanian Athenaeum is a concert hall within the center of Bucharest, Romania and a landmark of the Romanian capital metropolis. Opened in 1888, the ornate, domed, round building is the metropolis's important live performance corridor and home of the "George Enescu" Philharmonic and of the George Enescu annual global track festival. In 1865, cultural and medical personalities together with Constantin Esarcu, V. A. Urechia, and Nicolae Cre?ulescu founded the Romanian Atheneum Cultural Society. To serve its functions, the Romanian Athenaeum, a building devoted to art and science, might be erected in Bucharest. The building was designed via the French architect Albert Galleron, built on a belongings that had belonged to the V?c?rescu own family and inaugurated in 1888, although work endured until 1897.

A part of the construction finances become raised by means of public subscription in a 28-yr-lengthy attempt, of which the slogan continues to be remembered nowadays: "Donate one leu for the Ateneu. On December 29, 1919, the Atheneum become the web site of the conference of leading Romanians who voted to ratify the unification of Bessarabia, Transylvania, and Bukovina with the Romanian Old Kingdom to represent Greater Romania.