About 10 km from Bucharest ,
there is the Mogosoaia
Palace , built about 300
years ago by Constantin Brancoveanu and rebuilt in the 1920s by princess Marta
Bibescu. I t’s located in a dusty commune and to reach the palace, you
have to walk about 300m (or even less) from the main boulevard, but the
discrepancy between the village, which is poor, dusty, without any spark of
glamour and the palace area, which is large, green and
full of history, is huge. Anyway, the palace area is stuffed with people walking,
taking pictures, making barbecues, picnics, weddings, kids, single women in
their 40s, an expensive restaurant located in one of the wings of the palace and many surprising details, including a bucket with rose petals.
On the small road leading
to the Palace, about 100m from the main entrance, there where two old ladies chatting and an add saying: we are
selling lavender seedlings.