Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Ploiești, Romania

The Church of the Holy Voivodes in Ploiesti has its name from the first patron saint of the church, in 1628, and from the existing data in the archive it is believed that it is the second oldest church in the city of Ploiesti, after the Princely Church. Before the current parish church there was a church built of wooden beams, from 1648, but in 1711 the construction of the current church began, ending in 1720. The church preserves the Brâncoveanu style as architecture, being a historical monument of architecture. Between 2000 and 2005 consolidation works were carried out, capital repairs with sub-construction, the old painting was removed, because it had no heritage value, and a new painting was made between 2002 and 2005, in the fresco technique.

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The "Nicolae Simache" Clock Museum is a county museum in Ploieşti, Romania. Organized on the initiative of Professor N. I. Simache, as a section of the History Museum, it dates back to 1963. It was first installed in a hall in the Palace of Culture, until, through acquisitions, it acquired such a rich heritage that it needed its own premises. The Luca Elefterscu House was then made available to him, which was adapted to the new purpose; The arrangement works were completed in 1971 and the museum opened in January 1972.

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Nicolae Simache was a Romanian professor, historian and publicist. In 1963, he founded a clock museum named Nicolae Simache Clock Museum in Ploieşti, Romania.

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Ion Luca Caragiale, commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale, was a Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist. Leaving behind an important cultural legacy, he is considered one of the greatest playwrights in Romanian language and literature, as well as one of its most important writers and a leading representative of local humour. Alongside Mihai Eminescu, Ioan Slavici and Ion Creangă, he is seen as one of the main representatives of Junimea, an influential literary society with which he nonetheless parted during the second half of his life. His work, spanning four decades, covers the ground between Neoclassicism, Realism, and Naturalism, building on an original synthesis of foreign and local influences.

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Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party; his presidency constituted the Reagan era, and he is considered one of the most prominent conservative figures in American history.

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Henry IV, also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first monarch of France from the House of Bourbon, a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty. He pragmatically balanced the interests of the Catholic and Protestant parties in France as well as among the European states. He was assassinated in 1610 by a Catholic zealot, and was succeeded by his son Louis XIII.

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Michael the Brave, born as Mihai Pătrașcu, was the Prince of Wallachia, Prince of Moldavia (1600) and de facto ruler of Transylvania (1599–1600). He is considered one of Romania's greatest national heroes. Since the 19th century, Michael the Brave has been regarded by Romanian nationalists as a symbol of Romanian unity, as his reign marked the first time all principalities inhabited by Romanians were under the same ruler.

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Virgil Traian N. Madgearu was a Romanian economist, sociologist, and left-wing politician, prominent member and main theorist of the Peasants' Party and of its successor, the National Peasants' Party (PNȚ). He had an important activity as an essayist and journalist, being for long a member on the editorial board for the influential Viața Românească.

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The Evangelical Church of Romania is a Protestant denomination that emerged out of the Romanian Orthodox Church. It is one of Romania's eighteen officially recognised religious denominations.

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