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The best way to fully appreciate Bucharest is to spend a full day of in-depth exploring. We stroll on the major boulevards, starting with the huge Civic Center, where we make a stop for a visit of the impressive Parliament Palace, up the Triumph Arch. Here we pay a visit to the open air Village Museum, were we can admire village architecture and crafts from all over Romania.
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German JASSY, city, capital of Iasi judet (county), northeastern Romania. It is situated on the Bahlui River near its confluence with the Prut,
in the Moldavian plain, 8 miles (13 km) west of the border with Moldova and 200 miles northeast of Bucharest.
There were recognizable settlements at the site in the 7th century. The town received its German name (perhaps from the Cuman jagers, or bowmen) in
the late 14th and early 15th centuries, when it became a fortified customs post on the trade routes along the Prut Valley. In the mid-15th century
it became a residence of the prince of Moldavia. From 1565 to 1862, after the union of the Romanian principalities, it was the capital of Moldavia.
Iasi was sacked several times by Turks, Tatars, and Poles, was burned to the ground on one occasion, and suffered a plague in 1734; but it endured as a
cultural and economic centre. In 1641, Prince Vasile Lupu established a school and set up a printing press in the Byzantine church of the Trei
Ierarhi (Three Hierarchs), built 1635-39, from which the first book printed in Moldavia was issued.
Other historical buildings include the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (founded 1860), the church of St. Nicholas built by Stephen (Stefan) the Great
in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Vasile Alecsandri National Theatre (1894), and the flamboyant neo-Gothic Palace of Culture (finished 1929).
The city has several educational and research institutes and a branch of the Academy of Romania. It has good road and rail connections and an
expanding industry, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics, and textiles.
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