Herastrau Park (Parcul Herăstrău in Romanian) is the largest park in Bucharest, located in the leafy northern part of the city. It is one of the most beautiful parks in the Romanian capital.
Herastrau Park occupies 110 hectares of what used to be marshland before the area was drained in the 1930s. The park itself was opened in 1936. Beautiful trees – poplars, willows, maple trees, ash trees, linden trees -- surround a lake where you can go paddle boating. The alley around the lake is 6 km long. That’s about 3.7 miles. It’s a great distance for an hour and a half of leisurely walking, and you can also stop at the various restaurants and enjoy their fare indoors or out in the sun.
See below for a few photos from my walk in the park yesterday, as well as a short video I made today by stitching together three very small clips.
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No, no mosquitoes or other small biting insects. They're spraying insecticide. Apparently they're also spraying stuff to combat ticks.
Mira, Garden and museum tours are always popular with me. Places such as this Herastrau Park in Bucharest combine both so nicely in your descriptions and images!
So often draining wetlands results from commercial expansion. So it's refreshing to see such an end-result to this marshland's draining. Sometimes there's a persisting problem with insects, especially biting midges and mosquitoes? Is that a problem here? You wouldn't think from everyone's happy faces.
Thank you, Derdriu. It's one of my favorite places in Bucharest. There's a sense of peace there, and you do feel like you got away from the city. I'd be curious to see similar museums in the US. I have seen an amazing one in Germany. I wonder now where those pictures are. It was a long time ago. It was an open-air museum like this one but the buildings were much larger, and what amazed me, even though I expected it, was to see that people and livestock lived under the same roof.
Mira, Such an outstanding park and open-air museum. The interiors recall for me Old World Wisconsin, an open air museum, and Milwaukee Public Museum's European Village, an indoor museum.
Your video was enjoyable and gives a nice panorama and real feel for the park.
I especially enjoy your writing which features nature.
I know. I never get tired of village house interiors, with all the rugs and decorative plates, the rustic furniture and looms, wonderful old stoves, and whitewashed walls :)
Lovely article. I love that room in the museum - it's absolutely gorgeous! :)
Hi Elias, am so glad you enjoyed my page :), especially if you visited the museum and Romania. I hope I have done some justice to both. Look forward to your posts on Wizzley. Welcome!
I have visited the museum, it was a really interesting experience. What is more, you can find houses like those exhibited in the museum in the countryside only that people actually live inside! Thanks for the presentation, I enjoyed it!
Thank you, Glenda! :)
The pictures are incredible and I enjoyed the article!