MY CITY

Linguist Rodica Zafiu says, in an interview for AGERPRES, that her passion for Bucharest is mostly a very subjective search, of the time past and lost.

Great singer Corina Chiriac, one of the grand ladies of Romanian pop singing, gladly remembers a still sweet Bucharest in her childhood where men would wear felt top hats and greet the ladies, who would still wear muffs, with ''sărut mâna!'' [kiss your hand!].

In an interview to AGERPRES under 'MY CITY, BUCHAREST' project, painter Zamfir Dumitrescu says that if possible, he would rather choose to live in the yesteryear's Bucharest because of the somehow romantic atmosphere of those times.

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In an interview to AGERPRES, author Florin Iaru says that Bucharest is his motherland and that he feels at home in the city.

In an interview with AGERPRES for the 'MY CITY, BUCHAREST' project, actor Vlad Radescu says that he loves the city and feels attached to these places. 'I belong to Bucharest and Bucharest belongs to me, I see it as being mine,' says Vlad Radescu.

In an interview to Agerpres as part of the 'MY CITY, BUCHAREST' project, actress Maia Morgenstern talks about the city of her childhood and evokes nostalgic reminiscences about a green Bucharest. 'The Bucharest of my childhood was very green,' says the actress.

Cristian Gatu, an exceptional name in Romania and world's gallery of handball players, a former chairman of the Romanian Handball Federation, feels nostalgic about the Bucharest of his childhood, and Cismigiu Park has a special place in his heart.

Bucharest is attractive because it has a certain kind of liveliness which removes any reticence, namely people become very voluble, very open, says actress Medeea Marinescu in an interview to AGERPRES, part of MY CITY, BUCHAREST programme.

Bucharest is the most beautiful city in the world, combining the occidental and oriental styles, said Academician Razvan Theodorescu, the head of the Department for Art, Architecture and Audiovisual of the Romanian Academy, in an interview with AGERPRES, as part of the project 'MY CITY, BUCHAREST.'

The National News Agency AGERPRES will publish a series of interviews with personalities of Bucharest in September, within the project 'MY CITY, BUCHAREST' dedicated to the 555th anniversary of the first documentary evidence of the Romanian capital.