page_title: Obor
hierarchical_section_title: Obor
caption_attribution_description: Română: Blocul ALMO, construit în 1975 și renovat în 2017, văzut din zona stației de tramvai Bucur Obor. La momentul construcției, complexul ALMO avea în dotare 5 blocuri (2 turn, sud, 2 bară, unul dintre ele în fundal și clădirea centrală, în imagine), și magazinul universal Bucur Obor. ALMO vine de la Ansamblul de Locuințe și Magazine Obor. English: The ALMO housing estate, built in 1975 and renovated in 2017, seen from the Bucur Obor tram stop area. When it was completed, the ALMO housing estate had 2 tower blocks, 2 long apartment blocks (one of them in the background) and the main block building, the one in the foreground, along with the Bucur Obor universal store. ALMO stands for Ansamblul de Locuințe și Magazine Obor (Obor Housing and Shopping Complex).
context_page_description: Obor is the name of a square and the surrounding district of Bucharest, the capital of Romania. There is also a Bucharest Metro station named Obor, which lies in this area.
  Obor stands in the place of "Târgul Moșilor", a fair famous throughout Wallachia, which was held twice a week. In old Romanian "obor" meant enclosure, corral.
  Located outside the city, in the 18th century, it was also the place for public hangings. About 20 Turks captured from wars were hanged here by the Romanians
  The Obor market, the direct successor of the original fair, was, until 2007, Bucharest's largest public market. It covered about 16 city blocks and included a variety of indoor and outdoor market spaces, with goods ranging from compact discs to live chickens. Informally, the market spilled into the surrounding neighborhood, both in terms of street vendors and in terms of the nearby Magazin Universal named Bucur Obor, a large commercial building and housing estate that has been parcelled up into hundreds of small, independent retail stores. The market was demolished, not without public outcry, in order to pave the way for a modern market and a small park, thus ending a 300-year tradition.
context_section_description: Obor is the name of a square and the surrounding district of Bucharest, the capital of Romania. There is also a Bucharest Metro station named Obor, which lies in this area.
  Obor stands in the place of "Târgul Moșilor", a fair famous throughout Wallachia, which was held twice a week. In old Romanian "obor" meant enclosure, corral.
  Located outside the city, in the 18th century, it was also the place for public hangings. About 20 Turks captured from wars were hanged here by the Romanians
  The Obor market (Piața Obor), the direct successor of the original fair, was, until 2007, Bucharest's largest public market. It covered about 16 city blocks and included a variety of indoor and outdoor market spaces, with goods ranging from compact discs to live chickens. Informally, the market spilled into the surrounding neighborhood, both in terms of street vendors and in terms of the nearby Magazin Universal ("Universal Store") named Bucur Obor, a large commercial building and housing estate (officially named the ALMO housing estate, built in 1975 and renovated in 2013 and 2017) that has been parcelled up into hundreds of small, independent retail stores. The market was demolished, not without public outcry, in order to pave the way for a modern market and a small park, thus ending a 300-year tradition.
  Obor is near the quarter of Colentina and Moșilor.
  In Romanian popular culture, it is referenced by Gică Petrescu in his song Uite-aşa aş vrea să mor, in which the artist playfully expresses his desire to be buried in a tavern in the area with a glass of red wine in his hand. Among Bucharest dwellers, it has attained a reputation of a market of relatively cheap products, sometimes even of low quality.
caption: ALMO housing estate, main building and the (not visible due to the trees) Bucur Obor commercial complex after renovation, 2018
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