Until recently, nobody knew anything at all about the grandiose Bloc Florentin at 7 George Wrack Street.

View of Bucharest from abovePhoto: HotNews.ro / Catiusha Ivanov

Nothing about its original owner, nothing about the architect who designed “one of the most beautiful works of the Mediterranean type in Bucharest and Romania”. You immediately think of buildings in Seville or Barcelona. Because it is, in fact, the blocks of a masterpiece of a forgotten architect who transformed the fashion of that time into the alluring Mediterranean style of Bucharest.

Who owned the Florentine Block and who was the architect who designed it? Through information and archival documents, B365.ro recreates the extraordinary history of a building that has captivated generations of Bucharest residents. Simply because it exists.