Almost a century ago, Kiseleff Beach, the largest public swimming pool, as well as the largest sports facility in the capital, opened in the north of Bucharest. Built in the interwar period. Kiseleff Beach is considered one of the most important public buildings of its time in Bucharest.
Before the First World War, Bucharest was quite poor in beaches – there was only one, Tirol, where women and men bathed separately. But the interwar years came with all the changes in mentality. And with a new norm that was unimaginable just a few years ago: communal bathing.
Unlike Tirul Beach, where women could go only from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., after which the pool was reserved for men, at Kiseleff Beach, women could swim freely from 8 a.m. to midnight.
But it was not only swimming, the people of Bucharest came here for beer, lemonade or coffee, they came to have dinner or go dancing in the evening.
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Source: Hot News
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