Obor

Where the name comes from

A place or district

Obor market, Bucharest's former Outer Fair.

The Outer Fair, held outside the city, came to be known as the Obor Fair. In medieval Bucharest 'obor' meant a cattle market, from a word for a cattle pen. The central market halls, designed by Horia Creangă and Haralamb Georgescu, opened in 1950.

How the name travelled

1. OborBucharest metro station
2. Obor marketdocumented
3. the Outer Fair, which became the Obor Fairdocumented
4. 'obor', a cattle market, meaning a cattle enclosuredocumented

Worth knowing

• The station box was built in 1979 as an underground tram stop in the Obor underpass and turned into a metro station in 1989.
• The station closed in 2008 for works and reopened in May 2008.
• The station's dominant colour is light blue.