An old sign that reads “Lighters” at the corner of Calea Victoriei and Ioan Filitti Street.

Today’s photos show the lake in the Park of the Circus (Parcul Circului in Romanian) with its beautiful lotuses. The Park of the Circus was landscaped in 1961.

Some things do change in the Old Town even if the pace is much slower than we would like. The photo above was taken last summer, the one below last week.

Old and new

Since the reflection photo was such a success (6 comments! ) I decided to post a few more pictures from Alexandru Ioan Cuza (IOR) park.

Today is Theme Day at the City Daily Photo community, a monthly event that happens the first day of every month, when all participating blogs will post a picture that relates to the theme day’s description. Today’s theme is: Reflections. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

I like today’s theme, in fact this blog has a whole series on reflections (just click on the reflections tag and you’ll see). Today’s photo shows the lake in Alexandru Ioan Cuza park (former IOR park) and some of the tenement blocks that surround the park.

Today’s photograph shows the balcony of an old house (circa 1860s) on Franceză Street, in Bucharest’s Old Town. The house is in a bad shape, with crumbling walls and peeling paint but someone went to the trouble of decorating the balcony – as they knew best

For today, the bulkier, more elaborate type of clock, found in Cişmigiu Park.

Last year Bucharest’s city hall approved a contract to buy 10 golden clocks that apparently would make our city look much much nicer. I can think of many things that need fixing in Bucharest and probably the 915.000 euros payed for the clocks could have been put to better use by the ones in charge. But as now is too late to change anything, one has to try to make the best of any given situation a thought I always try to keep in mind when passing by the Palace of Parliament At the present time many of the clocks have already been installed – I’m not sure if all of them have been installed, I only saw 6 of them so far. They seem to be of two types, a bulkier and a slimmer version. They all have the year 1459 written on it, the year Bucharest was founded. Today’s photo shows the clock in University Square.

The works being done to Unirea Shopping Center allow us a to gaze on a rare sight the facade of the building without the advertisement banners. The commercial center was built in 1977 and remodeled in 1986.