Bulevardul Magheru

Bulevardul Magheru is a major street in central Bucharest. Built in the early 20th century, it is named after Gheorghe Magheru.

Bulevardul Magheru
Former name(s)I.C. Brătianu, Take Ionescu
LocationBucharest, Romania
FromPiața Romană
ToNicolae Bălcescu Boulevard

Together with Bulevardul Bălcescu, Magheru connects Piața Romană and Piața Universității squares and was in 1930s-1940s Bucharest most modern part. This is one of Europe and world's most representative modernist boulevards, where the architecture in vogue in the 1930s is prevalent.

Part of the major thoroughfare than runs through the middle of Bucharest, it is continued to the south by Nicolae Bălcescu, then by Ion C. Brătianu boulevards and toward north by Lascăr Catargiu and Șoseaua Kiseleff.

Bulevardul Magheru is one of the most expensive shopping streets in Europe.[1]

See also
  • The boulevard in late 1930s
  • The boulevard in 2017
  • The boulevard in 2020

References
  1. "Bucharest main boulevard Magheru among the most expensive in European commercial rents top". Hotnews.ro (in Romanian). 5 November 2008.

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