Pantelimon is a town in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania. The town — bordered to the west by the Romanian capital, Bucharest — has an area of 69 km2 (27 sq mi). Its name is derived from the Greek saint Panteleimon.
Image: RO IF Pantelimon Lebada island
Image: RO IF Pantelimon Cernica lake
Image: RO IF Pantelimon Tuborg factory
Image: RO IF Cernica monastery from island
Ilfov is the county that surrounds Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It used to be largely rural, but, after the fall of Communism, many of the county's villages and communes developed into high-income commuter towns, which act like suburbs or satellites of Bucharest. The gentrification of the county is continuing, with many towns in Ilfov, such as Otopeni, having some of the highest GDP per capita levels in the country.
Ilfov County
View of the center of Bucharest in 1928. Bucharest was the capital of the Kingdom of Romania and of Ilfov County in the interwar period.
Otopeni Airport Station