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Platform of Orizont station

Bucharest metro station

Orizont

M5Opened 15 September 2020

Photo: Andrei Bucur, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Where the name comes from

A place or district

The former Orizont shopping complex, one of the planned centres of the Drumul Taberei district.

Drumul Taberei was planned with shopping "complexes" that served as the cores of neighbourhood life: Orizont, Favorit, Drumul Taberei 34. Why the planners chose the word "Orizont" is not known.

How the name travelled

  1. OrizontBucharest metro station
  2. the former Orizont shopping complex in Drumul Tabereiprobable
  3. why "Orizont"unknown

Worth knowing

  • The Orizont area holds the ruins of the hangar where Aurel Vlaicu worked; his first flight took place here on 17 June 1910.
  • Bullet holes from December 1989 are still visible on some blocks in the Orizont area, opposite the General Staff building.
  • M5 stations were built exclusively by excavation from the surface (the top-down method).

On the line

M5

Valea IalomițeiRâul DoamneiConstantin BrâncușiRomancierilorParc Drumul TabereiTudor VladimirescuFavoritOrizontAcademia MilitarăEroilorRâul DoamneiEroilorValea Ialomiței

Where it sits in the network

Where it sits in the network: OrizontPantelimonRepublicaCostin GeorgianTitanNicolae GrigorescuDristorMihai BravuTimpuri NoiPiața UniriiIzvorEroilorGrozăveștiPetrache PoenaruCrângașiBasarabGara de NordPiața VictorieiȘtefan cel MareOborPiața IanculuiPiața MunciiTudor ArgheziBerceniDimitrie LeonidaApărătorii PatrieiPiața SuduluiConstantin BrâncoveanuEroii RevoluțieiTineretuluiUniversitatePiața RomanăAviatorilorAurel VlaicuPiperaPrecizieiPăciiGorjuluiLujeruluiPolitehnica1 Decembrie 1918Nicolae TecluAnghel SalignyGrivița1 MaiJiuluiParc BazilescuLaminoruluiStrăuleștiAcademia MilitarăFavoritTudor VladimirescuParc Drumul TabereiRomancierilorValea IalomițeiConstantin BrâncușiRâul Doamnei

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