Bucharest metro station
Tudor Vladimirescu
Photo: Andrei Bucur, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Where the name comes from
A person
Tudor Vladimirescu (c. 1780–1821), leader of the 1821 uprising and of the pandurs.
The station is named after Tudor Vladimirescu. Tradition links the name of the Drumul Taberei district to the pandur camp he set up here in 1821.
Names that never reached the platform
- Drumul Taberei 34 working name · 2010 – 2013-08-20
Worth knowing
- The M5 tunnels were bored by two TBMs named Varvara and Filofteia, at an average depth of 16 m.
- M5 was the first line conceived entirely after 1989; its first tender (November 2008) was cancelled in January 2010.
On the line
Where it sits in the network
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