The Bucharest metro Română
Platform of Piața Victoriei station

Bucharest metro station

Piața Victoriei

M1M2Opened 24 October 1987 (M2) · 17 August 1989 (M1)

Photo: Mihnea, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Where the name comes from

A square

Victory Square, site of the Government headquarters.

Historia says the station took the name of the square it stands in. Around it are the Government building, the Antipa museum and the Museum of the Romanian Peasant. Which victory the square's name refers to is not clear.

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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Sources

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