Acest amestec bizar care \u00eembin\u0103 elementele arhitectonice vechi tradi\u0163ionale, orientale cu modele arhitectonice occidentale, s-a datorat extinderii ora\u015fului, efervescen\u0163ei activit\u0103\u0163ii comerciale, dar \u015fi politice \u015fi culturale, favorizate de ridicarea Rom\u00e2niei de la rangul de Regat, \u00een 1881, mai apoi de pozi\u0163ia dominant\u0103 dob\u00e2ndit\u0103 dup\u0103 Marea Unire, aceea de capital\u0103 a Rom\u00e2niei Mari.<\/p>\n
Prezentul dic\u0163ionar ne propune descoperirea ora\u015fului prin monumentele \u015fi locurile sale reprezentative, p\u0103strate fizic sau doar \u00een memoria colectiv\u0103. Cele 200 de articole referitoare la l\u0103ca\u015furi de cult, institu\u0163ii administrative, economice, de cultur\u0103 \u015fi \u00eenv\u0103\u0163\u0103m\u00e2nt, case \u015fi palate, hoteluri \u015fi hanuri, restaurante \u015fi cafenele, pie\u0163e comerciale \u015fi pie\u0163e publice, str\u0103zi \u015fi bulevarde, statui \u015fi monumente ne prezint\u0103 o altfel de istorie, o istorie \u00een care monumentele \u015fi locurile au amintiri, m\u0103rturisind despre oameni, vremuri \u015fi \u00eent\u00e2mpl\u0103ri, dar \u015fi despre schimb\u0103rile pe care le-a cunoscut ora\u015ful, de la cele care au f\u0103cut din el o capital\u0103 european\u0103 p\u00e2n\u0103 la mutil\u0103rile sf\u00e2r\u015fitului epocii comuniste, \u015fi mai grav, postdecembriste. Istoria acestora \u00eentrege\u015fte istoria ora\u015fului, \u00een permanent\u0103 refacere, reconstruc\u0163ie dup\u0103 multele cutremure \u015fi incendii devastatoare, atacuri anun\u0163ate sau nea\u015fteptate, demol\u0103ri justificate sau abuzive.<\/p>\n
Lucrarea ofer\u0103 informa\u0163ii despre situarea, contextul istoric al apari\u0163iei, evolu\u0163ia istoric\u0103, detaliile arhitecturale \u015fi starea actual\u0103 a monumentelor din Capital\u0103, aduc\u00e2nd la zi toate modific\u0103rile intervenite \u00een ultimii doi ani, modific\u0103ri care \u0163in de restaurare (de exemplu, Hotel Continental) sau schimbarea locului (de exemplu, Lupoaica Capitolin\u0103 sau statuile din Pia\u0163a Universit\u0103\u0163ii).<\/p>\n
Structura lucr\u0103rii, cea de dic\u0163ionar, \u00een care articolele sunt prezentate \u00een ordine alfabetic\u0103, dup\u0103 denumirea cea mai cunoscut\u0103, fie cea ini\u0163ial\u0103, fie cea actual\u0103, materialele ad\u0103ugate (lista primarilor, scurta cronologie \u015fi un index al monumentelor tratate), precum \u015fi bibliografia cuprinz\u0103toare, fac din ea un instrument util \u015fi accesibil de cunoa\u015ftere. Este o lucrare documentat\u0103, surs\u0103 de informa\u0163ii \u015fi ghid de orientare \u00een Bucure\u015ftiul de ast\u0103zi \u015fi de odinioar\u0103. Este o lectur\u0103 obligatorie \u015fi pl\u0103cut\u0103 pentru cititorul, n\u0103scut aici sau doar \u00een trecere, interesat de locurile pe l\u00e2ng\u0103 care trece \u015fi care sunt investite cu celebritate.<\/p>\n
Valentina Bilcea \u015fi Angela Bilcea, “Dic\u0163ionarul locurilor \u015fi monumentelor celebre din Bucure\u015fti”, Editura Meronia, Bucure\u015fti, 2011<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“Ora\u015f al asimetriilor provocatoare \u015fi al haosului pitoresc, Bucure\u015ftiul r\u0103m\u00e2ne, nu mai pu\u0163in, singura capital\u0103 din R\u0103s\u0103ritul european unde po\u0163i \u00eent\u00e2lni la tot pasul toate stilurile arhitectonice ale continentului, de la cel postbizantin la rococoul turcesc, de la eclectismul \u015fi academismul fran\u0163uzesc, la ‘art nouveau’ \u015fi la ‘art d\u00e9co’, de la neorom\u00e2nesc la cubism” (R\u0103zvan Theodorescu).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7194],"tags":[25819,306,7193,1611,23363,242,20200,25818],"class_list":["post-52644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carte","tag-angela-bilcea","tag-bucuresti","tag-carte","tag-dictionar","tag-editura-meronia","tag-istorie","tag-monumente","tag-valentina-bilcea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69432,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52644\/revisions\/69432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bm.dev.synology.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}