Basarab Tower
Basarab Tower was an elevator testing building in Bucharest built between 1986 and 1988. It had 23 floors and measured 114 meters. The surface of a level was 400 square meters.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Superbet Arena - Giulești and Golescu Grant Community center.
Superbet Arena - Giulești
Stadium
Photo: Arne mueseler, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
The Rapid-Giulești Stadium, known as Superbet Arena-Giulești for sponsorship reasons, is a football-specific stadium located in the Giulești neighbourhood of Bucharest, Romania. Superbet Arena - Giulești is situated 510 metres northwest of Basarab Tower.
Golescu Grant Community center
Community center
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Golescu Grant Community center is situated 590 metres southwest of Basarab Tower.
Basarab railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andrei Stroe, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Basarab railway station in Bucharest is situated near the city's main station, Gara de Nord. Built in 1959 to handle a share of the main station's traffic and mainly used by short-distance commuter trains run by Căile Ferate Române, it is often considered to be an annex of Gara de Nord, to which it was linked by a footbridge, demolished in 2009 to make way for the Basarab Overpass. Basarab railway station is situated 590 metres east of Basarab Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Regie and Crângași.
Regie
Suburb
Regie is a small district situated in western Bucharest, the capital of Romania, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, in Sector 6. It is located in the vicinity of the Politehnica University of Bucharest and comprises mainly student dormitories and student facilities like restaurants, bars, and clubs.
Crângași
Suburb
Crângași is one of the smallest neighborhoods in the 6th Sector of Bucharest, Romania. It is situated on the west side of the city near the Dâmbovița River, where it flows into Lacul Morii.
Grivița
Suburb
Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.71 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2.31 million residents, which makes Bucharest the 9th most-populous city by population within city limits in the European Union.
Basarab Tower
- Type: Building
- Description: elevator test tower in Bucharest, Romania
- Categories: skyscraper and elevator test tower
- Location: Sector 6, Municipiul Bucureşti, Bucharest, Wallachian Plain, Muntenia, Romania, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From French to Romanian—“Basarab Tower” goes by many names.
- French: “tour de Basarab”
- French: “Tour de Basarab”
- Romanian: “Turnul de testat ascensoare (Bucureşti)”
- Romanian: “Turnul de testat ascensoare (București)”
- Romanian: “Turnul de testat ascensoare”
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