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[[Image:Solacoglu.jpg|thumb|225 px|Hanul Solacoglu seen from Calea Moşilor (January 2008)]]
[[Image:Solacoglu1.jpg|thumb|225 px|Window frames, Hanul Solacoglu (January 2008)]]

The '''Solacoglu Inn''' ({{langx|ro|Hanul Solacoglu}} or ''Hanul Solacolu''; {{langx|bg|Солаков хан}}, ''Solakov han'') is a former inn and pasta factory in [[Bucharest]]. It is located along [[Moșilor|Calea Moşilor]], a trading avenue that used to make the connection between Bucharest's Inner Town (Romanian ''Târgul Dinlǎuntru'') and the largest marketplace in the town ([[Obor]] Marketplace, partially rebuilt in 2010.<ref>[http://www.gandul.info/news/cum-arata-noua-piata-obor-cu-o-saptamana-inainte-de-inaugurare-o-investitie-de-117-milioane-de-euro-reinvie-spiritul-perioadei-interbelice-galerie-foto-7423228 Cum arată noua Piață Obor, cu o săptămână înainte de inaugurare. O investiție de 117 milioane de euro reînvie spiritul perioadei interbelice], 26 September 2010, gandul.info, accessed 10 November 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.jurnalul.ro/stire-observator/piata-obor-redeschisa-de-ziua-recoltei-556071.html Piața Obor, redeschisă de Ziua Recoltei] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160422210237/http://jurnalul.ro/stire-observator/piata-obor-redeschisa-de-ziua-recoltei-556071.html |date=2016-04-22 }}, 10 October 2010, jurnalul.ro, accessed 10 November 2010.</ref> and still in use). Its architecture blends traditional outlines with a few Western elements. It was constructed in 1859 for Solacoglu Brothers, merchants from [[Svishtov]], [[Bulgaria]] who had settled in [[Wallachia]].<ref>[http://www.timeoutbucuresti.ro/bucurestiul-sectiune/6486/953479/case-plang-hanul-solacoglu.html ''Case care plang''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716215656/http://www.timeoutbucuresti.ro/bucurestiul-sectiune/6486/953479/case-plang-hanul-solacoglu.html |date=2011-07-16 }}, Time Out Bucuresti, July 27, 2007</ref> In the 1990s the city government evacuated the illegal inhabitants and the bureaucratic process of restoring the building was supposed to begin, but it did not. The building lies nowadays in a bad, ruined state, with its doors and windows blocked off by metal strings bars and plates.

Around the [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)|Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878]] ([[Romanian War of Independence]]), the head of the [[Bulgarians in Romania|Bulgarian diaspora]] lived in the building. The Romanians and Bulgarians were allies in this war of liberation from the Ottomans. The inn hosted the editor's office and printing house for Bulgarian revolutionary leader [[Lyuben Karavelov]]'s newspapers ''Freedom'' and ''Independence'' and magazine ''Knowledge''. Fellow revolutionary [[Hristo Botev]] also stayed at the Solacoglu Inn in 1875 to publish his own newspaper ''Flag''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Сапунджиева |first=Дара |date=2025-05-31 |title=Букурещ укрепва хана, в който са списвани български вестници |url=https://www.dnevnik.bg/na_put/2025/05/30/4788774_bukuresht_ukrepva_hana_v_koito_sa_spisvani_bulgarski/ |access-date=2025-05-31 |website=www.dnevnik.bg |language=bg}}</ref> [[Vasil Levski]] coordinated his [[April Uprising]] plans with Karavelov at the inn.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Солаковият хан в Букурещ - за историята и предстоящата реставрация |url=https://stroiinfo.com/restavrirat-solakoviya-han-v-bukuresht/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240418035725/https://stroiinfo.com/restavrirat-solakoviya-han-v-bukuresht/ |archive-date=2024-04-18 |access-date=2025-05-31 |work=Stroiinfo {{!}} Стройинфо |language=bg-bg}}</ref>

Other old inns still standing in Bucharest include [[Manuc's Inn]] (Romanian: ''Hanul lui Manuc''), [[Gabroveni Inn]] (Romanian: ''Hanul Gabroveni''), and the Lindentree Inn (almost universally known by its Romanian name ''[[Hanul cu Tei]]'').

In November 2021, the Bucharest City Hall announced that it was intending to seize the inn through [[eminent domain]] in order to restore it, which it did in February 2022, with restoration works beginning on 17 February 2024 and currently underway.<ref>https://www.libertatea.ro/stiri/incep-lucrarile-la-hanul-solacolu-la-165-de-ani-de-la-constructie-si-24-de-cand-a-fost-evacuat-ultimul-chirias-4805893</ref> During the first stage of its restoration, scaffolding was put up to secure the building's outer walls, which meant that one of the tram tracks of [[Bucharest tram line 21|line 21]] was inaccessible starting 20 April 2024 until the building's outer walls and facade were made safe, and as such a pair of temporary switches was put up in order to allow for [[single-line working]] to take place.<ref>https://hotnews.ro/hanul-solacolu-va-fi-pus-n-sfrsit-n-siguranta-primaria-capitalei-s-a-chinuit-2-ani-sa-nceapa-lucrarile-ce-se-ntmpla-cu-tramvaiul-21-6674</ref> Works on rebuilding the facade ended later that year and on 10 November 2024, normal line working was restored.<ref>https://buletin.de/bucuresti/lucrarile-la-fatada-hanului-solacolu-sunt-gata-tramvaiul-21-revine-pe-ambele-sensuri/</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://hanulsolacolu.com/ Solacolu Inn Website]

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[[Category:Industrial buildings completed in 1859]]
[[Category:Historic monuments in Bucharest]]

Solacoglu Inn - Revision history

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