Piata Unirii was once even a “market” in the original sense of the word, a place where everything was traded, but especially food.

Piata Unirii was a collection of halls and vendors who made a living selling vegetables, it was connected to the Church of the Patriarchate. The chain of halls was reduced to one in the 1930s, when the city’s main square was built.

“On one side of Dâmboviţa was a meat hall, and on the other – a hall for fruits and vegetables, Bibescu halls. In 1872, a French architect built metal workshops in Bucharest based on the model of Parisian metal workshops, which were a real monument of industrial architecture,” recalled historian Rezvan Teodorescu.

Read on B365.ro about the changes in one of the most significant places in Bucharest.