Kilometre Zero (Bucharest)

At right, a temporary, unofficial Kilometre Zero marker a few hundred metres north, in University Square, Bucharest, erected as part of a protest action by the Association of Victims of the Mineriads. (May 2006)

The Kilometre Zero monument (Romanian: Kilometrul zero) located in central Bucharest, Romania, in front of Saint George's Church, was created by Constantin Baraski in 1938.

The distances from Bucharest to other cities in Romania are measured from this monument. It is divided into eight sections, each representing a Romanian historical province: Muntenia, Dobrogea, Bessarabia, Moldavia, Bucovina, Transylvania, Banat and Oltenia. Among the cities inscribed on it are also Chişinău, Orhei, Tighina, which are currently in the Republic of Moldova, as well as Silistra and Dobrich (Bazargic) in Bulgaria, which were part of Greater Romania from 1913 to 1940.

See also

• Kilometre Zero