Provider: - Institution: - Data provided by Europeana Collections- Archaeological excavation of Gabroveni Street, in the old centre of Bucharest, revealed different stages of evolution of this important street going along the north part of the princely court in Bucharest. From an epoch when the Gabroveni street was, probably, just a road beside the enclosure of the princely court dated four sunken buildings, severely damaged by later interferences, each having a fire place built on bricks. On all south part of Gabroveni Street we found remains of the wooden fortification of the princely court. It is a structure made from big logs fixed in a trench, mentioned by foreign travelers in the 16th century. Later, a brick wall was built to protect the princely court. This wall generally follows the alignment of the wooden fortification, and in some area even cover it. It suffers a major restoration during the reign of Constantine Brâncovan. After the princely court was partitioned and sold, new buildings appeared which reused the wall of the former princely court. In almost all of the excavated surfaces we met remains of the wooden structure that cover the street in 18th and 19th century. An extraordinarily well preserved area of this “wooden street” and of the enclosure wall of the princely court was proposed for conservation.- All metadata published by Europeana are available free of restriction under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. However, Europeana requests that you actively acknowledge and give attribution to all metadata sources including Europeana