| Places of interest - Bucharest | |
| The Arch of Triumph is located in the second circus of the Kiseleff Boulevard at its junction with Marshal Prezan and Marshal Averescu Boulevards, next to one of the south entries of the Herastrau Park. The first monument, a wooden one, was erected on the same spot in 1922. The actual arch was built in 1935 in Deva granite, by Architect Petre Antonescu, who is also the designer of the Bucharest City Hall. It is conceived in classical style, following the model of the great Arch of Triumph in Paris. Its shape is that of a parallelepiped, with a 25 x 11.5 m basis and a height of 27m. Its span is 11m high and 9.5m wide and has an arch of a circle at its upper part. The two feet of the monument have interior staircases that lead to the terrace of the monument. |
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| Its façades are decorated with stone carvings bass-reliefs, medallions, royal crowns and the effigies of Queen Mary and King Ferdinand, who had an important contribution to the 1918 union of all Romanian speaking provinces. Famous sculptors like Ion Jalea, Cornel Medrea, Mac Constantinescu, Frederick Storck, Dimitrie Paciurea or Constantin Baraschi contributed to the decoration of the monument. | |
