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OCR: B U In this amazing, spectacular, colourful gathering of inconsistent and contrasting buildings there is an obsession of diversity which provides for the singleness of this city in C the field Bucharest is a weird city, one can love, one can hade, one can even despise or contest but In front of which one can never be indifferent. A A Short History Bucharest is a city made of numerous architectural gatherings and overlapping, R belonging to various ages and cultures. To understand it and moreover to get a feel of it, one should form an idea about its history and the way it mirrors in sechitecture. E Since always, mis city on the fleld has developed freety on the horizontal dimension. But "since always" does not mean more than five or six centuries, because on the land which lies at the north of the Danube, "forever" does not last longer than a day S There is a legend, extremely dear to Romanians, which bells about an enlightened bread his sheep. founder: a shepherd called Bucur who would have built a church on the place he used to T The mythical dimension of this tradition is obvious and supports a thesis known by many historians . the initial sacredness of towns More precisely the documents in the Middle Ages Be the fortress en Dambovitra - the TEXT QUIT