A presentation made by: Alice TătaruBianca TaceaElena GaneaIuliana CristacheTara Simionescu

School no. 12, BUzĂU

The city of Buzău is the county seat of Buzău County, in the historical region of Wallachia. It lies near the right bank of the Buzău River.

The city's most important landmark is the Communal Palace, built between 1899 and 1903, now serving as City Hall. Along with the Courthouse, the Communal Palace was designed by architects commissioned by mayor Nicu Constantinescu, at the end of the 19th century.

Crâng Park, carved in the corner of a larger forest, lies in the western outskirts of the town. Crâng was designed in the late 19th century. It has an obelisk, built in 1976 to celebrate 1600 years since the town's first recorded historical attestation.

The oldest building in Buzău is the Vergu-Mănăilă House, built in the 17th or 18th century as a boyars' mansion. Renovated between 1971–1974, it now hosts the local Museum of ethnography and folk art.

The church of Banului, built in the 16th century as a monastery, underwent renovation several times. In 1884, it was repainted by a team of painters including Gheorghe Tattarescu and his uncle Nicolae Teodorescu.

An old tradition of the city is the Drăgaica fair, a midsummer fair traced back to traditional shepherd's fairs in the Buzău mountains, that moved to Buzău sometimes before the 18th century. It is held every year in June.

Brâncuşi lived in the city in the summer of 1914, after Eliza Seceleanu, a young local landowner's widow, had commissioned him to create two sculptures: Prayer and the bust of Petre Stănescu, her late husband. Both sculptures decorated Stănescu's tomb at the local Dumbrava cemetery for a while, but they were since moved to the National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest, being replaced by two copies.

The city's most important educational landmark is the Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu National College, attended by the Nobel prize winner George Emil Palade in his youth. The Hasdeu high school was inaugurated in 1867.

The city's public library was opened in 1893, under the name of Carol I Public Library. Later it took the name of Vasile Voiculescu, Buzău's most important author, writer, and poet.

The George Ciprian stage theatre was created in 1996. Since 2003 it hosts a major theater comtetition Vedeteatru. George Ciprian was a famous actor and playwright.