Formerly called the Mogoşoaia Bridge – most likely because it used to make the connection between Bucharest and the Mogoşoaia Palace and it was paved with wooden boards, the Victory Avenue was often compared, in the course of history, with Champs Elysees, an association dating back to the age when Bucharest itself gained the surname of the Little Paris.
Calea Victoriei is a name celebrating Romania’s victory in the War of Independence (1877), and since then it has maintained the reputation of historical avenue of Bucharest, now substantiated by the fact the street meanders through the very core of the architectural and historical patrimony of the capital of Romania.
In summer you can people watch from the steps of the History Museum
