Rahova is a neighbourhood of southwest Bucharest, situated in the 5th district (sector), west of Dâmboviţa River. It stretches from between Antiaeriană and Drumul Sării Avenues until Panduri Square (in the West), Panduri Street and 13 Septembrie Rue. in the North, George Cosbuc Ave., Viilor and Sălaj Street in the East and Bucharest City Limits in the South. Roughly, the neighbourhood is organized alongside two important avenues (13 Septembrie Ave. and Calea Rahovei, and all the streets linking them). It neighbors Drumul Taberei, The City Center (at Izvor), and Ferentari. Roughly, Rahova is situated on the Uranus and Viilor hills. The DâmboviÅ£a River in central Bucharest Along a small tributary of DâmboviÅ£a, named Colentina, several lakes stretch across the city, the most important being Lake Floreasca, Lake Tei and Lake Colentina. ... The DâmboviÅ£a river is a river in Romania that has its source in the FăgăraÅŸ mountains and flows southward to traverse Bucharest and to meet ArgeÅŸ river 258 kilometres from its source. ... A compass rose with west highlighted This article refers to the cardinal direction; for other uses see West (disambiguation). ... Compass rose with north highlighted and at top North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the... A compass rose with east highlighted East is most commonly a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. ... Pestera Scarisoara ... The Centru Civic (literally Civic Center) is a portion of Bucharest, Romania which was completely rebuilt as part of the scheme of systematization under the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ferentari is a neighbourhood in the 5th district (sector) of Bucharest, Romania. ...

The inhabitants of the neighbourhood split it further in "zones", partially based on the naming and numbering of the block of flats (a specificity of Rahova is that house numbering and postal addressing is not done based on actual street numbers but rather on block numbers - a letter of the zone and an index number). As such, there are seven zones (east to west and north to south): Drumul Sǎrii (DS), Petre Ispirescu (P), Mārgeanului (M), Panduri, 13 Septembrie/Sebastian (S), Rahova (R) and Alexandriei (A).

According to the Local Tax Direction of The 5th District, the population of this area is around 180.000, in zones scaled from 1 to 4 (1 being the highest, 4 the lowest).

History

From the 1950s onwards, Rahova entered a period of long urban decline, due to the fact that it was, until the 1960s, the further district from the city centre, had a lack of infrastructure and contained the Rahova Penintentiary, the largest jail in Bucharest. In the early 1970s the area was also the headquarter of the infamous Barbugiu clan, the first organized crime gang to be recognized by the authorities. Calea Rahovei was also known as The Florists' Street (Drumul Florăreselor), because it was (and to some amount still is) the location of Bucharest's flower markets and flower gadens. Jump to: navigation, search Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations. ...

Starting from 1997, various efforts were made to renew the area, and Rahova is currently undergoing a period of modernisation in order to improve its image. Rahova is now linked to the Bucharest city centre by a light metro line, upgraded from the existing tram line, with trains coming at a frequency of one minute. New facades have been built for the apartament blocks along Calea Rahovei, as well as significant improvements in the neighbourhood highschool (including a new swimming pool) and a complete overhaul of the parks, The Flower Market (Piaţa de Flori) and Rahova Market. This was done with the support of both the Mayors of Bucharest and the Mayors of the 5th Sector, in which Rahova is located, and has resulted in the gentrification of the district. Jump to: navigation, search 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search Blight often stands side-by-side with new structures during urban renewal efforts. ... The word facade (or façade) can mean one of several things. ... Jump to: navigation, search This once impoverished historic neighborhood near downtown Jersey City is quickly becoming gentrified. ...

The neighbourhood shares along with Ferentari the title of the birthplace of manele music in the early 1990s. Additionally, a number of musical experiments such as Rahovian Black Metal (a mix of manele and heavy metal) and Rahovian Dance Music (a mix of manele and pop) originate here. Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Transportation

Rahova is serviced by a number of public transport (RATB) lines, especially tramways (or light rail) and to a lesser extent buses. Line 32 (Light Rail Transit - Metrou Uşor) is the main line, with tramways running every minute from Rahovei Market to Unirii Square. Currently a number of tramway lines are upgraded and/or converted to Light Rail. There is no subway (Metrou) in the area, nor are there plans to build or extend the network to the area. Because of a chaotic layout of roads and streets (common for the entire city), and the presence of a belt of factories to the north of the neighbourhood (The Old Industrial Area of Trafic Greu), there are basically only three roads heading downtown (Calea Rahovei, 13 Septembrie and Drumul Sării - with no secondary streets whatsoever), all with only two lanes per way of traffic and heavy public transport. This causes severe traffic jams that can last for up to five hours daily. The only solution found was to demolish two factories and make way for a new road, but the proposal was deemed too expensive and scrapped. Jump to: navigation, search Skytrain Bangkok. ... Regia Autonomă de Transport Bucureşti is a public surface transit operator in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. ... A modern tram in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland A tram (or tramway, trolley, streetcar, tramcar, Straßenbahn) is a railborne vehicle (lighter than a train) for transport of passengers (or, occasionally, freight). ... A train of Light Rail, KCRC, Hong Kong. ... Jump to: navigation, search Bucharest Metro Map The Bucharest Metro (Metroul BucureÅŸti in Romanian) is an underground urban railway network that serves the capital of Romania, Bucharest. ...

Administration

As part of the 5th District, it is directly administred by the Mayor and Council of the District and by the Mayor and Council of Bucharest. Offices of mayorality exist in The Flower Market and in Rahova Market.