Bucharest metro station
Piața Victoriei
Photo: Mihnea, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Where the name comes from
A square
Piața Victoriei (Victory Square), named after victory in the 1877–78 War of Independence.
The station took the name of the square it stands in. Bucharest City Hall's street register says the square was named after victory in the War of Independence of 1877–78.
How the name travelled
- Piața Victoriei
- Piața Victoriei
- victory in the War of Independence (1877–78)
Worth knowing
- The mosaics in the connecting passages were painted and whitewashed over in 2022.
- Lia Dima designed one of the two Piața Victoriei stations.
On the line
Where it sits in the network
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