Giurgiului
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Giurgiului is a small neighborhood in Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

 situated in the south, near Berceni
Berceni, Bucharest
Berceni is a district of southern Bucharest.-Location:Geographically, it has a trapezoidal shape, bordered by Oltenitei Road and Turnu Magurele Street in the north and south, respectively. Built during the 1960s, it is a typical Communist-era working class district, lacking any major green spaces...

 and Ferentari
Ferentari
Ferentari is a neighbourhood located in the 5th Sector of Bucharest, Romania.-Etymology:It is considered that the name of "Ferentari" contributes in a great measure to its reputation due to its exotic sound: the word "Ferentari" comes from the Latin word "Ferentarius" meaning "soldier in the old...

. As Berceni, Giurgiului has a plenty of 10 floors blocks of flats which were built by the communists during the early 1970s. The average population is between 30000 and 40000. Before the communists started their massive building programme, Giurgiului was a village where people used to do agriculture. After 1948, the village was added to the city-area and after few years, in the south of the neighborhood was built a pipe factory and a power plant, CET Berceni. Also, Giurgiului has a railway station which connects Bucharest with Giurgiu, a port on the Danube. Also the road which passes through the middle of the neighborhood (Giurgiului Road) is an important route to Giurgiu
Giurgiu
Giurgiu is the capital city of Giurgiu County, Romania, in the Greater Wallachia. It is situated amid mud-flats and marshes on the left bank of the Danube facing the Bulgarian city of Rousse on the opposite bank. Three small islands face the city, and a larger one shelters its port, Smarda...

 and Bulgaria
Bulgaria
Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

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Transportation

The neighborhood has a good transportation grid, though it has no access to the subway.
Two tram
Tram
A tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...

ways (7, 25) grant the access to the city centre, while one line (4) is used as shuttle service.
Three bus lines(323, 116, 102) connect the neighborhood with other districts of Bucharest.
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