Bucharest metro station
Crângași
Photo: GillyBerlin from Berlin, Germany, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Where the name comes from
A place or district
The Crângași district, once a hamlet on the edge of Bucharest, by the Dâmbovița.
A statistical map of 1828–1832 shows a hamlet of at most five households here. According to the Sector 6 council, the place was a copse (crâng) at the edge of the Vlăsia forest, and its people were called crângași. The explanation is traditional; no place-name study confirms it.
How the name travelled
- Crângași
- the Crângași district
- the hamlet of Crângași
- a copse of the Vlăsia forest; its people, the crângași
Worth knowing
- It has a third track never used by passengers, built for an abandoned line III.
- The station is finished in white Rușchița and red Moneasa marble, to designs by architect Georgeta Gabrea.
- Passengers can change here to tram route 41.
On the line
Where it sits in the network
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