Ploiesti is the main city in the Wallachia region, about 56 km from Bucharest. Ploiesti is Romania's oil production center, with an oil-refining industry that has existed since 1857. The first large refinery in the world opened at Ploie?ti in 1856 and the city flourished as a trade and manufacturing center in the 17th and 18th centuries and much of the beautiful downtown architecture dates from that period: the Nicolae Simache Clock Museum, the former Creditul Prahovei, St. John the Baptist Cathedral, the Ghi?a Stoenescu House, and the Radu Stanian House. There are several lovely museums in the city such as the Ion Luca Caragiale Museum, the Clock Museum, and the modern Muzeul Judetean de Stiintele Naturii, or Prahova County Museum of Natural Sciences.

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