BUCUREȘTI, Romania. Teatrul Național. Postcard

BUCUREȘTI
Teatrul Național / National Theater

Postcard published by Monopol-Kunstdruck-Verlag, Berlin, Nº 8.

The National Theater of Bucharest was founded as the Teatrul cel Mare din București ("Grand Theatre of Bucharest") in 1852, its first director being Costache Caragiale (1815-1877). It became a national institution in 1864 by a decree. The construction of the original building (represented in the photo) got under way in 1848, only to be interrupted in June by the Wallachian revolution; in August 1849, after Prince Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbei took power, he ordered that construction be completed. The theatre was inaugurated on 31 December 1852. It was destroyed during the Luftwaffe bombardment of Bucharest on 24 August 1944.

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CATACOMBE DI SAN CALLISTO. Roma, Italy (1950s)

CATACOMBE DI SAN CALLISTO
[Catacombs of Callixtus]
Via Appia Antica, 110-116
00179 Roma

Admission ticket Nº 71673
L. 100

[1950s]

The Catacombs of Callixtus (also known as the Cemetery of Callixtus) is one of the Catacombs of Rome, most notable for containing the Crypt of the Popes (Cappella dei Papi), which once contained the tombs of several popes from the 2nd to 4th centuries. The Catacomb is believed to have been created by future Pope Callixtus I , then a deacon of Rome, under the direction of Pope Zephyrinus, enlarging pre-existing early Christian hypogea. These catacombs were rediscovered by the archaeologist Giovanni Battista de Rossi in 1849.

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