Giurgiului

A few years later in the south of the neighborhood a pipe factory was built along with a power plant, CET Berceni.

Giurgiului has a cemetery, which includes a memorial to an estimated 300 Jewish refugees who had sailed from Romania aboard the motor schooner Mefküre and were killed when a Soviet submarine sank the ship in August 1944.

Thus, the beginnings of the current Giurgiului housing estate are listed below: From an architectural point of view, the buildings are standardized, but especially on the 1960s buildings, there is a noticeable Western Modernist influence, typical of Romanian housing estates built in that era.

The planners responsible for the construction of the housing estate were Mircea Bercovici, Constantin Gherghiceanu, and Cleopatra Alifanti.

The neighborhood has a good transport network, although it is not fully serviced by the Bucharest Metro, with the nearest station being Eroii Revoluției.

The Toporași tramway station in Giurgiului
Coat of Arms of Bucharest
Coat of Arms of Bucharest