To Inherit, to Entrust, to Protect ... A Piece of Bucharest Between Calarași Road and The Popa Soare street
To Inherit, to Entrust, to Protect ... A Piece of Bucharest Between Calarași Road and The Popa Soare street

Summary/Abstract: The north-eastern corner of the crossing between the Calarași Road and the Popa Soare Street is furnished with historical monuments, both properties, i.e. the one at 59 former Vergului Route and the one bearing the number 2-4 on the subordinate traffic way, being listed. As a matter of fact, the whole neighbourhood stands out for its cultural values, which determined the experts in 1990 to claim an architectural reservation (according to the 68/1994 government order, adopted as the 41/1995 law), i.e. an urban fabric fragment that has preserved its street network and a building stock that also requests legal status as historical monument. Eventually, this district has been divided among protected areas, as one of the above-mentioned properties was included, for obvious reasons, into the one concerning the Calarași Road and the other into the one bearing the name of Sfîntul Ștefan Street. Still, a recent research of the adjoining property, in 61 Calarași Road, has identified relationships between the three properties so special that they may reveal new meanings of the historical monuments category (legally) defined as "ensemble". Moreover, more than any other case study, this triad mirrors a history that is also about the (true) right to inherit as well as about the derived responsibilities, including that of entrusting, topics approached by the 20th symposium "Arhitectura. Restaurare. Arheologie".

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