Țepeș Voda's tower, the mysteries of a unique monument in Bucharest. The fortress that housed a water tank was restored
PHOTO Credit: Andrei Neagu, author of the volume “Bucharest neo -Romanian”.
Romantic and atypical for the architecture of Bucharest, the Tepa Voda's tower in Carol I Park amazes through its medieval citation silhouette.
It is that impressive edifice within the radius of protection of precious monuments: Carol I Park and the Filaret Electrical Park.
It was classified as a historical monument by an order of the Ministry of Culture of 2010, under the name of the Water Tower “Cetatea lui Țepeș Voda”.
It was designed on the occasion of the general exhibition of Romania from 1906 by the architect Victor Stephanescu, in collaboration with the engineers Scarlat Petculescu and Leopold Schindl.
It is a charming construction, which imagines a possible reconstruction of the fortified fortress from Poenari, the residence of Vlad Țepeș, which dominated Valea Argeșului, but also reminds of the Tower of Chindia from Târgoviște.
Read, on B365.ro, the history of an architectural jewel in Bucharest, which was first water basin, then the building was used as a point of observation for firefighters.
