In this vlog you have few pictures from Berzei Street, in Bucharest. Historian, academic and professor Dinu C. Giurescu grew up at str Berzei 47. In one interview, he gives a short history of the street and those that lived there. At nr.2, the architect Cezare Dell Debbio built homes for C. Dumitrescu and D. Constantin. Nr 7 , the A. Lesseama House (arch. Schuckerl), Nr.125, the workshop of the painter Stoiescu. He remembers from his childhood how the street was line with trees, forming welcome shade in summer. In 1916, several bombs fell on str. Berzei near nr.49 and on April 4th, 1944, the first bomb from an American bomb-raid fell on a basement just opposite killing 47 people who had taken refuge there. The most valuable segment, he says, is the area from Stirbei to Plevnei, and this is part of the city's traditional, national heritage. This heritage suffered massive destruction over 80 years of 'systematisation'. 29 other cities have experienced a rate of 85% demolition - these are true, hallucinating crimes against Roumanian urban identity. As you can see even today most of the building are in pain, the need for big renovation is really high. But to renovate such old building means a lot of money.
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