It was also long home to the Constantin Tănase Revue Theatre (as of 2006, relocated to the Lipscani district), and was the site of the old Romanian National Theater just north of Palatul Telefoanelor; the departed theatre's façade is replicated by the front of the Bucharest Novotel that opened in summer 2006.
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It leads from Splaiul Independenței (which runs parallel to the Dâmboviţa River) to the north and then northwest up to Piaţa Victoriei, where Șoseaua Kiseleff continues north.
He held the first Romanian open-air exhibition on Calea Victoriei (1957) and designed The Festive Column (1964), a 20 m high concrete and stone monument that stands in Herăstrău Park, Bucharest.