{"id":391492,"date":"2022-09-20T18:05:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=391492"},"modified":"2022-09-21T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T07:19:42","slug":"bucharest-marks-563-years-since-its-first-documentary-attestation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/bucharest-marks-563-years-since-its-first-documentary-attestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucharest marks 563 years since its first documentary attestation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Tuesday, Bucharest marked 563 years since its first documentary attestation. On this occasion, several cultural events are organised under the title \u2018Bucharest&#8217;s Days\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bucharest&#8217;s first documentary attestation dates back to the 15th century (on September 20, 1459) and it is a document by which Prince Vlad the Impaler confirmed a donation made to some feudal lords.<\/p>\n<p>The chrysobull is kept at Bucharest Museum \u2013 \u0218u\u021bu Palace.<\/p>\n<p>In 1659, Bucharest became the capital of Wallachia during the reign of Prince Gheorghe Ghica.<\/p>\n<p>Several events have been organised under the name \u2018Bucharest&#8217;s Days\u2019 to highlight the history of Bucharest this week.<\/p>\n<p>For three days, water sports, workshops and cultural and other activities took place on Dambovita River&#8217;s stretch between Timpuri Noi and Mihai Bravu.<\/p>\n<p>The Museum of Bucharest organised free guided tours which included presentations of outstanding personalities and important moments of the old Bucharest. The museum also opened a photo exhibition entitled \u2018Years have passed 2022\u2019 (\u201eTrecut-au anii 2022\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Saint Demetrius the New is considered the spiritual protector of the capital of Romania. He was proclaimed as patron saint of the city by the Metropolitan Filaret II (1792-1793).<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Basilica.ro Files<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on Twitter: @BasilicaNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Bucharest marked 563 years since its first documentary attestation. On this occasion, several cultural events are organised under the title \u2018Bucharest&#8217;s Days\u2019. Bucharest&#8217;s first documentary attestation dates back to the 15th century (on September 20, 1459) and it is a document by which Prince Vlad the Impaler confirmed a donation made to some&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":240370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22922],"tags":[123,28365,246],"class_list":["post-391492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-bucharest","tag-museum-of-bucharest","tag-romania"],"better_featured_image":{"id":240370,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":5568,"height":3132,"file":"2019\/06\/Comunicate-de-presa-I.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Comunicate-de-presa-I-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Comunicate-de-presa-I-360x360.jpg"},"medium":{"file":"Comunicate-de-presa-I-890x501.jpg","width":890,"height":501,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Comunicate-de-presa-I-890x501.jpg"},"large":{"file":"Comunicate-de-presa-I-1024x576.jpg","width":1024,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Comunicate-de-presa-I-1024x576.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"4","credit":"Robert Nicolae","camera":"NIKON D5","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1476363485","copyright":"Agentia de stiri Basilica","focal_length":"200","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.000625","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":240413,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Comunicate-de-presa-I.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391492\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=391492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391492\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240370\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=391492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=391492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=391492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}