Pitești

Piteşti [ piteʃt ʲ ] ( German outdated Pitesk ) is a town in Wallachia (Romania) and is situated in Arges county. It is about 120 kilometers west of Bucharest. By Pitesti Arges river flows.

History

At the time of the Roman Empire, the region of the present-day city was part of the Roman province of Moesia inferior ( Niedermösien ); from this period are numerous archaeological finds. Piteşti itself was first mentioned on May 20, 1388 under the reign of Wallachian Prince Mircea cel Bătrân. In order for the city next Câmpulung, Curtea de Arges, Brăila and Slatina is one of the oldest settlements in Wallachia. 1510 it is attested as a city. From 1512 to 1521, built Neagoe Basarab here a princely residence. Nevertheless, Piteşti initially developed only slowly. 1780, the city had about 1250 inhabitants in 250 houses. In the second half of the 19th century a industrial development, which was promoted by the union of Wallachia and Moldavia to Romania in 1859 and by the connection to the railway network in 1872.

Under the rule of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej prisoners were forced by the Securitate, to torture each other, to kill or to educate them as communists from 1949-1951. This became known as the " Pitesti Experiment".

Population

1824 lived in Pitesti about 5,000, about 7,000 residents in 1859. 1930 were registered 19,532 residents, including about 17,200 Romanians, 500 Hungarians, 400 Roma and 250 German. As of the 2002 census described themselves from the 168 458 inhabitants of approximately 167,000 as Romanians, as Roma 800 and 150 as Hungary.

2011 155.383 people were registered, of whom 145 870 Romanians, 834 Roma, 100 Hungary, 42 Turks, 39 German, 37 Greeks, 35 Italians, 33 Armenians, 13 per Lipovans, Serbs and Jews, each 6 Csángós and Chinese, 5 Macedonians, 4 Ukrainians and 8333 other ethnic or without information.

Economy

In Piteşti is a great work of the Renault group associated automaker Automobile Dacia SC. To the south is the oil refinery Bradu.

Traffic

Piteşti has railway connections to Bucharest, Rosiorii de Veda, Craiova, Curtea de Arges and Câmpulung. There are regular buses in almost all major cities of the country. The end point of the city of Bucharest Romanian leading highway is so far 1 This case corresponds to European Routes 70 and 81

Attractions

• Trivale monastery (15th century)
• Church Sfântul Nicolae
• Church Sfântul Gheorghe
• Art gallery
• District Museum

Personalities

• Ion C. Brătianu (1821-1891), Prime Minister (1876-1888)
• Ion Antonescu (1882-1946), Prime Minister (1940-1944), Marshal and Chief of Staff of the Army
• Armand Călinescu (1893-1939), Prime Minister (1939 )
• Sebastian Papaiani (* 1936), actor
• Nicolae Dobrin (1947-2007), football player
• Mihai Zamfir ( born 1955 ), football player
• Constantin Stancu ( born 1956 ), football player
• Adrian Neaga ( b. 1979 ), football player
• Andrei Mărgăritescu ( b. 1980 ), football player
• Cristian Tănase (* 1987), football player

Pictures

Art gallery

Statue of Mircea cel Bătrân

Hotel Victoria

Town hall

Town Hall Square

Town Hall Square with art gallery

Victoria Street, pedestrianized since 2008

Cinema "Modern"

Cinema "Modern"

Victoria Street

St. George's Cathedral

Muntenia Square

Shopping arcade

Prefecture building

Business college

Park with City Museum

City ​​Museum