Bucharest metro station
Parc Drumul Taberei
Photo: Andrei Bucur, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Where the name comes from
A place or district
Drumul Taberei Park (formerly Moghioroș); the district name ('Camp Road') is linked to Tudor Vladimirescu's 1821 pandur camp.
The station is named after the nearby park, laid out with the first parts of the district and called Alexandru Moghioroș Park under communism. Tradition links the name 'Drumul Taberei' ('Camp Road') to Tudor Vladimirescu's 1821 pandur camp.
Names that never reached the platform
- Sergiu Celibidache working name · 2013-08-20 – 2013-08-20
Worth knowing
- Steaua Stadium is nearby.
- Though densely populated since communist times, the district was left out of metro plans in favour of Militari.
- A former staffer quoted by HotNews, relaying designers' accounts, says Ceaușescu did not want a metro in Drumul Taberei because the district was not his creation.
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