Colentina is one of the main neighborhoods in Bucharest's 2nd district located on the north-east of the city [Bucharest, Romania]]. Colentina can be called the greenest part of Bucharest due to the large surface covered by recreation areas created along the Colentina river (Tei,Plumbuita,Fundeni) and the Andronache forest, areas witch are some of the main concerns for the local mayor and council.

Also Colentina is a nice place to settle due to the fact that the 2nd district haves no industrial plant or factory and haves a lot of commercial areas: like the "Obor" area (the biggest in Romania and one of the biggest in Estern Europe), 4 hypermarkets and the "Europa" en-gross (the biggest of its kind in Eastern Europe) the Fundeni Hospital (one of the best in the country) and several traditional markets.

During the comunist era the Colentina area was transformed from a poor neighborhood with small cheap houses on the outskirts of the city into an area dominated by new 10 floors apartment buildings made for the labor force brough from the countryside to work in the big industrial plants in and around Bucharest.

The main axis of the neighborhood is the Colentina Road witch connects the Obor Commercial Area with the Europa En-Gross commercial area. This road is one of the main ways used for getting out of Bucharest twords the south-eastern part of the country and also the main acces routes used by workers from Voluntari City that work in Bucharest.

As transportation Colentina is quite well covered by the public transportation network (RATB - Regia Autonoma de Transport Bucuresti) with the 21 train line(link to the center of the city (Sfantul Gheorghe square), the 66 trollbus line (link with the cernter of the city, Cismigiu park, The National Theater, Bucharest University and Armeneasca Church, the Fundeni Hospital) and several buses (182:link to the Nord Train Station, 282:link to Basarab train station, the Bucharest State Television, Floreasca Sport Base, 143: link the the Eastern Train Station, 682: link with the andronache neighborhood adn the eastern train station, 253:link to the Pantelimon and Tital neighborhoods and to the Fundeni Hospital adn several routes that link Bucharest to the nearby villages and small cities). There is no Subway in Colentina because of the great dificulty o extending the network because of the colentina river but the surface transportation can easily take people to the Obor subway station.

The area doesn't have alot of historic places due to the great demolition done by the comunists in order to make the new apartment buildings but a couple survived: the Plumbuita Moanstery, the Saint Dumitru church, The Ghica Family Palace and the old Gherghitei ceramics factory.

A local folk etymology says that the name is derived from "colea-n-tină" (there, in the mud), this being the answer given by a spătar to Matei Basarab, who asked the former where he had defeated the Ottoman army. Folk etymology is a term used in two distinct ways: A commonly held misunderstanding of the origin of a particular word, a false etymology. ... Matei Basarab Matei Basarab was a Wallachian voivode between 1632 and 1654. ... Ottoman redirects here. ...

Let's not forget to mention that Colentina is the homeland of Parazitii rap band (The Parasites-www.parazitii.ro) famous for telling it as it is for the people supporting the civil society's efforts (weird they don't promot the gangsta' style common to rap bands).

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