Bucharest metro station
Piața Unirii
Photo: Rc1959, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Where the name comes from
A square
Union Square, so named in 1959, the centenary of the union of the Principalities.
The square was Piața Mare in the 19th century and Piața Națiunii after 1918. Names marking royal anniversaries followed, then, from 1950, '28 March'. In 1959 it became Piața Unirii, for the centenary of the 1859 Union. The station links M1, M2 and M3.
Worth knowing
- On 1 May 1987 an excavator breached a Dâmbovița canal; water flooded the station, and trains ran again only on 7 May.
- It had also flooded in 1983, during work on M2.
- Ceaușescu visited the flooded station in 1987.
- Work in the area uncovered a column shaft from the houses of Preda of Brâncoveni.
On the line
Where it sits in the network
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Sources
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