Monument or statue · 1932
Monument to the Medical Corps Heroes
The monument, the work of the Italian sculptor Raffaello Romanelli, was erected in 1932 in Piața Operei, during the term of mayor Dem. I. Dobrescu, in memory of the doctors, medical orderlies and volunteer nurses on the fronts of World War I. On the marble pedestal, a band of high reliefs shows scenes from field hospitals and the battlefield; one of them probably features Queen Marie as a nurse, alongside her children. Four columns support the bronze statuary group: a fallen hero, an allegorical female figure and a medical orderly. Dismantled for the metro works, it was reinstated in 1981 on the same spot.
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On the old maps
The place appears on 43 maps and images, from 1790 to today:
- 1790 · Specht Plan
- 1791 · Ernst Plan
- 1846 · Borroczyn Plan
- 1852 · Borroczyn Plan
- 1864 · Szathmari Plan
- 1871 · Pappasoglu Plan
- 1883 · Cerkez Plan
- 1893 · Orăscu Plan
- 1896 · J. Don Plan
- 1900 · Plan of Bucharest 1900
- 1911 · Army Geographic Institute Plan
- 1914 · Socec Plan
- 1921 · Mihai Pantea Plan
- 1926 · Union Plan
- 1927 · Aerial photo 1927
- 1927 · Socec Plan
- 1928 · Industrial Plan
- 1931 · STB Plan
- 1931 · Unirea Plan
- 1934 · Wahing Plan
- 1938 · Aerial photo 1938
- 1938 · Teodorescu Plan
- 1939 · Simboteanu and Moldoveanu Plan
- ~1940 · Artillery Firing Plans
- 1943 · Aerial photo 1943
- 1966 · Satellite image 1966
- 1968 · Map of Bucharest 1968
- 1969 · Map of Bucharest 1969
- 1972 · Satellite image 1972
- 1976 · Satellite image 1976
- 1977 · Satellite image 1977
- 1978 · Satellite image 1978
- 1979 · Satellite image 1979
- 1980 · Satellite image 1980
- 1982 · Satellite image 1982
- 1982 · ITB Plan
- 1983 · Satellite image 1983
- 1984 · Satellite image 1984
- ~1985 · Soviet Topographic Map
- 1990 · Cadastral Plan
- 2001 · AGC Polonia Plan
- 2017 · Orthophoto 2017
- today · Current satellite
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