Buzau is a county seat between south-eastern curvature of the Carpathian Mountains and the lowlands of fBărăgan Plain.
The city's most important landmark is the Communal Palace, built
between 1899 and 1903, now serving as City Hall. Along with the Courthouse, the
Communal Palace was designed by architects commissioned by mayor Nicu Constantinescu, at the end of the 19th
century.
From the Communal Palace, Cuza Vodă Street leads to the Bazaar.
The Cuza Vodă Street features late 19th century buildings
Crâng Park, carved in the corner of a larger forest, lies
in the western outskirts of the town and is a remnant of the oldCodrii Vlăsiei. Crâng was
designed in the late 19th century. It has an obelisk, erected in 1976 to
celebrate 1600 years since the town's first recorded historical attestation.
The oldest building in Buzău is the Vergu-Mănăilă house, erected in the 17th or
18th century as a boyars' mansion. Renovated between 1971–1974, it now hosts the local
Museum of ethnography and folk art.
The church of Banului, erected in the 16th
century as a monastery, underwent renovation several times. In 1884, it was
repainted by a team of painters including Gheorghe Tattarescu and his uncle Nicolae Teodorescu.
An old tradition of the city is the Drăgaica fair,
a midsummer fair
traced back to traditional shepherd's fairs in the Buzău mountains, that moved
to Buzău sometimes before the 18th century.
