Bazilescu Park, Public park in Bucurestii Noi district, Bucharest, Romania

Bazilescu Park is a public green space in the Bucurestii Noi neighborhood of Bucharest, made up of mature trees, winding paths, and an open-air theater. The grounds are organized around shaded alleys and open lawns that alternate throughout the park.

A university law professor donated the land to the Romanian state, and the park opened in 1954. It became one of the few green spaces in the northern part of the city at that time.

The Summer Theater was designed by architect Paul Emil Miclescu, built in 1953 and inaugurated for the World Festival of Youth and Students, with 2,000 seats. It is now administered by the Ministry of Culture and stands in an advanced state of decay, so visitors see a closed ruin rather than performances. Two busts in the park honor Nicolae Basilescu, as the pedestal inscription reads, and Nicolae Bălcescu, who gave the park its former name.

The park sits next to Bazilescu metro station on line M4, so it is easy to reach by public transit from the city center. Several bus lines also stop nearby, connecting it to other parts of Bucharest.

Some of the oldest trees in the park are survivors from the Vlasiei Forest, a vast woodland that once covered much of the land where Bucharest now stands. Walking past them gives a sense of what this area looked like before the city grew around it.