The emergence of the museum, belonged to the first concerns of the multifaceted personality of Nicolae Droc-Barcian, the Gymnasium director. He set up a botanical garden in 1876, and in 1883 a school museum of natural sciences, successively enriched with archaeological pieces and documents. The accumulated heritage was lost after the 1916 destruction of the […]

The Cultural Center Ion Vinea is the pillar of cultural and artistic activities in Giurgiu; its activity is based on a rich cultural tradition and giurgiuvean music, sustained  over time by great personalities like Victor Karpis, Teodor Bratu Gheorghe Barbulescu and continued today by high-class professionals, under the direction of music teacher Virgil Petanca. The […]

About 70 years ago, a group of Catholic workers from Belgium came to Giurgiu, to build a sugar factory. Giurgiu Catholic community was then numerically very small gathering on holidays only in a “Prayer House”  located in the courtyard of the current parishe. The guests came here to work took the initiative to make do […]

Inspired by the model of a Greek temple and having on the facade the symbol of the Roman eagle,  the Athenaeum “Nicolae Bălănescu” was built in  n just a few months in 1940 by the philanthropic gesture of the lawyer Nicolae Bălănescu, who decided to demolish his house and with materials obtained thus to built […]

The church was throughout the centuries not only a keeper of the God teachings, but also a keeper of those spiritual values which formed and kept the identity of this nation, of these grounds. This thing was understood by all the servants of the Church, but also by the First Prophet from the Episcopacy of […]

The beautiful roadside cross made of sculpted wood, on the concrete pedestal, is dedicated to the martyr heroes who fell at the Revolution from December 1989. During the revolution, the number of the deceased and of the ones mutilated by shooting, before the 22nd of December 1989, is approximately 7 times smaller than the one […]

In 1966, was inaugurated the current building o the theatre titled the ” House Culture “. Several years of cultural emulation, supported by the most important collectives in Bucharest followed: Variety Theater, Operetta Theatre, Romanian Opera, the Philharmonic, the National Theatre, Bulandra Theatre, Nottara Theatre, etc. The big hall with 480 seats, was overcrowded, while […]

The Equestrian Statue of Michael the Brave in Giurgiu was carried out at the initiative of the Mayor of Giurgiu, Lucian Iliescu, an artist from Constanta, which conducted and the equestrian statue of Michael the Brave in Năvodari, inaugurated on 15 August 2011, as a replica of the statue Michael the Brave Bucharest. The mayor’s […]

The work was ordered by the Society “The Cult of the Heroes”, the branch office of the former county Vlașca and it was executed by the public contribution. The author of the project is the artist State Baloșin. The foundation was put on the day of the 15th of August 1926, the works being finalized […]

Ascension of Our Lord Church from Giurgiu was built in 1939, in the honor of the martyr heroes died in the First World War. Ascension of Our Lord Church from Giurgiu has a Neoclassic architecture, being built after renowned projects, imitating the structure and form of other religious monuments in the country built for the […]