Bucharest is a city like no other! Buildings hundreds of years old gaze in fascination at the skyscrapers a stone's throw away, the chaos of traffic is suddenly crushed in the tranquility of the great parks, and old women with kerchiefs on their heads share stories of communism with their childhood friends wearing pearls around their necks. A city of contrasts, of old and new, of innovation and yet of the past. 

What fascinates most about our capital? Here are 5 curiosities about Bucharest today: 

City of parks - Although there can never be too much green and we want cities with as many parks as possible, Bucharest is not bad in this respect: it has a high density of parks and gardens, including Herăstrău Park, which is one of the largest urban parks in Romania. It also has Cișmigiu Park, one of the oldest urban parks in Romania, established in 1847.

The narrowest street - The Rahova district is home to the narrowest street in Bucharest, being only 198 centimeters wide, 70 centimeters wider than Sforii Street, the narrowest in Europe. This makes it one of the most interesting tourist attractions and a point of curiosity for those visiting the city. The street is a perfect example of the diversity and urban particularities of Bucharest.

Do you know what used to be a favorite place for fur hat thieves? The Bellu Cemetery in Bucharest, where the thieves would stand on the wall and effectively 'fish' fur hats off ladies' heads, and then sell them in Tineretului Park

The first theater in Bucharest was the National Theater, which opened on December 21, 1852 with the play "Zoe or the Borrowed Lover".

The first petits were made in Bucharest. The much-loved mici were "invented" by Iordache Ionescu, the owner of a restaurant in Bucharest, "La o idee" (located on Covaci Street). They came about when Ionescu, short of sausage casings, used a mixture of meat and bicarbonate of soda to make small sausages without the casing. Great success! Let's thank Ionescu!

The oldest railway station in Bucharest is Filaret, which opened in October 1869, a year and a month earlier than the current Gara de Nord (formerly Gara Târgoviște), which opened in 1870.

The entrance to the Novotel Hotel in Bucharest is actually the facade of the former National Theater, which was destroyed during World War II. The target of the German bomb was not this building but the Palace of Telephones. It seems that German precision isn't what it should be sometimes.