CISMIGIU GARDENS ARE NEAR BUCHAREST CITY CENTER

Cismigiu Park in Bucharest is the oldest and the most well-known public garden in the capital of Romania. From University Square you need to walk for about 10 minutes to get here. Or take a bus also from University Square and step down at the first station. We have been living for more than 20 years in Bucharest and we can say that Cismigiu is a special place. It is in the middle of the city, there are pubs around it and also shops. You can get a coffee or a beer and enjoy them in the park. Cismigiu Park is on Elisabeth Boulevard. See on this picture the buses you can take from University station.

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Description: Buses to Cismigiu Garden from University Square

CISMIGIU PARK HISTORY

HOW A MUDDY LAKE BECAME AN AWESOME GARDEN

Cismigiu Park in Bucharest was a dirty and muddy place, with underground water sources in the mid 17th century. A will was built here in 1779. Here also lived the great ministry of waters at that time, Dumitru Suiulgi-basa. Inhabitants called him the great Cismigiu. The word came from the Turkish Cesme, which ment the waters and wills owner. The area has been a danger for the public health until 1830. That was because the floods provoked by the River Dambovita and the like itself.

One of the youngest, let’s say, parks in Bucharest is the CIRCUS PARK, where you can see rare trees, flowers and the famous turtles in the lake in the area.

A GREAT PARK IN BUCHAREST CENTER

In 1830, the general Pavel Kiseleff, the Russian governor of the two Romanian provinces demanded a public garden to replace the old lake in Bucharest at Cismigiu. In 1848 the lake and the land were bought by the authorities who also asked Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meyer, a landscape painter from Wien to come and build a garden. Meyer decided to plant 30.000 trees in the new park, built flower carpets and footpaths and in 1852, when he died, a small wall was also built to surround the garden. All the works ended in 1854 and the official inauguration took place on 22 March 1860.

It was Cismigiu Park or Cismigiu Garden as it is usually known…

WELCOME TO CISMIGIU GARDEN IN BUCHAREST

Cismigiu Garden in Bucharest actual shape is the masterpiece of Francisc Rebhuhn. He also arranged Cotroceni Garden and built not only artificial stones, bridges, small caves and islands but also brought fish and swans inside a Zoo. Much later, another park, CAROL PARK  offered the inhabitants a larger space but also bridges, small caves and so on. One of the first newspapers kiosks in Bucharest was in Cismigiu Garden and can still be seen today.</p></p>

So, if you travel to Bucharest, a restaurant has been the main attraction in the Park, on the island in the middle

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ake. It was built in 1886 but in burnt at the end of the first world war. It was called Monte Carlo and was replaced in 1926 by another construction which fell during the great earthquake that hit Bucharest in 1940.

HAVE A GOOD TIME IN THE CENTER OF BUCHAREST IN CISMIGIU PARK

A new restaurant offers Romanian cuisine but not only at very good prices. There was also a BUCHAREST ZOO GARDEN here. The Writers Alley  opened in 1943. You can read more about the park HERE.

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Description: Spring, which means April and May, is the perfect time to come to Bucharest Cismigiu Park

WHAT TO SEE

Eminescu’s spring is also a highlight for Cismigiu Garden. There is also here the Monument of French Heroes during the first world war. They made it from Carrara marble in 1920. If you leave Cismigiu to the REVOLUTION SQUARE, you might like to visit a monument-church like KRETULESCU CHURCH. Or you can go to University and have lunch at MILITARY CIRCLE. Cismigiu Garden is a place to walk, take a small boat and have fun on the lake. Or you can eat something special from deliveries and enjoy nature in the middle of Bucharest.

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