Parliament building in Bucharest. Ceausescu Palace in Bucharest

A beautiful city and beautiful architecture - that’s all about the capital of Romania. Bucharest . Bucharest was once deservedly called “little Paris”. Today the city is a mixture of old and modern. Bucharest has a lot to see in terms of attractions. One of the attractions of Bucharest is the unique palace built by Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu in 1965.

The largest building in Europe is located right there in Bucharest, and is called “Palace of the People” (“Casa Poporului” ). This building is second in size only Pentagon and has 1100 rooms. Under number one there was the office of the leader himself, and under number two - his wife Elena. At that time she was the head of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.

Magnificent panels of incredible beauty

On the same scale, the Ceausescu couple built their own residence on Vesna Street ( Primaverii Blvd.) and named "Palace of Spring" - "Palatul Primavarii".

In 2014, the Romanian government attempted to sell this beautiful structure, but it did not work out. And today, for the first time in many years, this palace is open to visitors. After the execution of the presidential couple in 1989, the palace was closed for more than 26 years and was not used in any way during all these years.

The perfectly preserved chandeliers are amazing

The interior of the rooms has been preserved in its original form. Now the palace, which has 80 rooms and a plot of land of 14,000 sq.m., is included in the tourist routes of Romania. Guests of the Romanian capital are shown luxuriously furnished apartments, bathrooms with golden taps, a cinema, a swimming pool, a wine cellar and a greenhouse with peacocks. By paying about 10 euros you can explore this beautiful and very famous palace.

Palace style
Very modern, safe in bedroom

The owner of the palace was famous for his love for everything peasant and throughout the palace there are paintings and carpets with scenes from the life of the peasants of Romania. Nicolae Ceausescu himself was the ninth son in a large peasant family.

Peasant life in paintings and figurines

Being friends with the leaders of many countries, he, of course, received many interesting gifts, most of them are kept here. Ceausescu did not like to spend currency outside the country, so all the beauty was made from local materials and by local craftsmen. Valuable tree species from the local Carpathians were used to decorate the walls with wooden carved panels.

Such an office would still decorate any palace today.
Fine work

Also, everything that glitters like gold throughout the palace is not real gold, which so excited the minds of those times.

Gold faucets are not gold. This is an imitation, and a very skillful one at that.
Louis style chests of drawers and armchairs, clearly a favorite in the interior

The interiors of many rooms are said to have been designed by Elena Ceausescu herself. Many are clearly inspired by the East, which the couple often visited.

Descendants of Ceausescu’s favorite peacocks still roam around the palace. He bred them in large numbers not only in the garden, but also on the walls of his residence.

Peacocks are shy and were not included in the frame

His wife Elena loved collecting expensive porcelain figurines of people and scenes from their lives. You can see a lot of them in all the rooms. It is curious that Elena Ceausescu's clothes and shoes are still preserved here. You can see the style and fabrics of those times.

Everything in the palace was equipped with the latest technology at that time: water massage, underwater massage, sauna and other devices to maintain the shape and health of the leader of the nation. For Bucharest in those years, all this was new.

All the decoration of this work of art was made as much as possible from local materials and by Romanian enterprises and craftsmen. The exception was the mosaic brought to Bucharest from abroad.

Shared bedroom of spouses, even pajamas are carefully folded on the bed

Gold color everywhere, from ceiling to floor
It’s nice to sit in such an interior with the powers that be
Marble and gold
Photos of the president's numerous relatives

Home theater of course

It is worth visiting this beauty and evidence of an entire era. Who knows how long this palace will be available to tourists, and whether there will be a buyer for it.

Photos courtesy of Sevastian Ilasco.

In the very center of Bucharest is the famous Ceausescu Palace, now called the Palace of Parliament. The palace occupies an entire block, its dimensions are 270 by 240 meters, and its height is 86 meters. This is the largest administrative building in the world - its area is as much as 350,000 square meters. It is also the heaviest civil administrative building in the world.

The style of the palace is reminiscent of Stalin's Empire style - it seems that the palace was built around 30-50 years, but in fact its construction began only in 1984 on the personal order of Ceausescu. “Great Conductor”, “Genius of the Carpathians”, “Spruce”, “Prince Charming”, “Navigator” (all these are epithets that Romanian writers of the communist years awarded Ceausescu) decided to build a palace in the very center of Bucharest on Sinai Hill, for which they were destroyed a fifth of the historical center of Bucharest, including many architectural monuments. In parallel with the palace, several residential buildings in the same style were built, intended for those close to Ceausescu.

In 1989, dictator Ceausescu was executed, and his palace remained partially unfinished. During today's walk we will walk through the halls of the Ceausescu Palace, go down into the unfinished basements, and also look at the ruins of administrative buildings from the communist years that still stand in Bucharest.

02. This is what the palace looks like up close - the wide street Bulevardul Unirii leads to it, which is something like an alley with fountains. We will still see the road from the upper floors of the palace.

03. The nearby blocks are occupied by residential buildings built in the same style as the palace - apartments in these houses were intended for the party leadership of communist Romania and those close to Ceausescu. What’s interesting is that some buildings are not completely completed—you can still see here and there walls made of unplastered bricks and dark gaps of unglazed windows.

04. There are lanterns installed around the palace in the same style as the palace - some are in very poor condition.

05. Close-up photo of the palace fence - the palace itself and the fence around it were built from something similar.

06. Let's go inside. The palace greets you with the coolness of its marble halls and the colossal volumes of internal spaces.

07. Bronze sconces with Romanian crystal pendants.

08. One of the meeting rooms, built like a theater - with a stage (a shot was taken from it) and several tiers of seats for spectators.

09. Chandelier under the ceiling, also Romanian crystal.

10. Railing. Ceausescu’s special pride was that all the materials from which the palace was built were Romanian. The construction of such a colossus caused a significant shortage of building materials in the country, but everyone could tell that Romania would never kneel down and buy American cement.

11. Staircase to the upper floors with bronze railings. Like many other rooms of the palace, everything here is decorated with marble - so much of it was spent on the construction of the Palace of the "Genius of the Carpathians" that in the late eighties even tombstones had to be made from other materials - marble became a terrible shortage.

12. A passage hall, in which there are now stands with national Romanian clothing, and on the left there is something like a television studio, where some politicians of modern Romania often give interviews.

13. Door handle made of bronze.

14. One of the meeting rooms.

15. Marble corridors.

16. Let's go out to the palace terrace - it is located at an altitude of about 50 meters, and it offers good views of the city.

17. On the terrace you can see the ventilation ducts of the palace.

18. And storm drains covered with metal gratings.

19. View towards the city - the street is called Bulevardul Unirii, this is the same boulevard that was laid along with the construction of the palace, destroying part of the historical city. I don’t care about history - the “Great Conductor” was supposed to contemplate the fountains in the morning.

21. And here it is - another meeting room, no longer reminiscent of a theater, but of a Catholic cathedral.

22. Do you know what amazes you most about the Navigator palace? Some kind of terrible anachronism. It’s hard to get rid of the feeling that he dreamed of such a building since his youth during the Stalinist years.

23. And if in Moscow of the 1930s such luxury and pompousness can still be somehow understood, then in Romania of the late 1980s it looks funny and absurd.

24. The palace looks like a grandmother who bought a dress in her youth, kept it in her wardrobe for 50 years and finally decided to wear it and go out - not noticing that the lace flounces now cause not envy, but a grin, and the dress itself has faded and smells like mothballs.

25. The luxury of the palace is gradually crumbling and crumbling, the cracking marble floors are bashfully covered with plaster.

26. An empty wardrobe, looking exactly the same as in some Soviet theater.

27. Toilet. The “great conductors” also went to pee from time to time.

28. In the toilet there is a balcony on which there is some kind of ancient and forgotten mop.

29. Now let's go down to the basements of the palace. A narrow technical staircase leads there, no longer decorated with marble, more reminiscent of a staircase to some kind of nuclear bunker. The basements themselves are in quite poor condition - it is clear that the palace did not have time to finish. There are gray concrete walls without finishing, some construction marks.

30. Cable routes are hidden behind one of the doors.

31. Behind the other is a construction workbench and traces of some unfinished work.

32. Heating mains and garlands of electrical cables pass through the basement.

33. There are piles of broken bricks lying in the corners.

34. And construction waste.

35. On the back side of the palace there are open sewer hatches.

36. In which, apparently, homeless people now live.

37. And a few blocks from the palace there are two unfinished administrative buildings, which began to be built along with the palace, but were never finished.

38. The buildings turned out to be unnecessary for the new Romania - they were not completed, they were simply surrounded by a high, blank fence “as is” and surveillance cameras were installed.

39. Huge colossi of the Soviet era look at the world through the empty eye sockets of window and doorways. The decor is gradually crumbling - rain and snow are doing their job.

40. Metal piles are visible in front of the buildings - probably something else was planned to be built here.

42. Rusty I-beams.

43. Modern Romanians are reluctant to remember the Ceausescu era, preferring to talk about the future rather than the past.

The ruins left here from communism are of little interest to anyone.

The Ceausescu Palace is the world's largest civil administrative building, the largest parliament building (with an area of ​​350,000 square meters and a volume of 2,550,000 square meters) and also the heaviest building in the world. For a long time, the Palace of Parliament was the second building in the world in terms of area after the Pentagon. Initially, the palace was called the House of the People, but in the post-communist era it was renamed the Palace of Parliament. Despite this, many still call him by his former name.

The dimensions of the Ceausescu Palace are 270 by 240 m. The height is 86 m. The underground part of the palace has a height of 92 m. The palace has 1100 rooms, 12 floors. 4 underground levels have been completed and are already in use, and 4 more levels are at various stages of completion. About a million m2 were spent on construction. marble mainly from Ruškica, 3,500 tons of crystal (480 chandeliers, 1,409 ceiling lamps and mirrors), 700 thousand tons of steel and bronze for doors, windows, chandeliers and capitals. 900 thousand square meters were also used. wood for parquet and wall panels (hazel, oak, cherry, elm, maple), 200 thousand m? wool carpets of different sizes. Machines were even brought into the palace to make some of the large carpets on site. The building of the palace combines elements of various architectural styles and does not lend itself to clear classification. The palace was built on Spirius Hill, which was partially destroyed for this purpose. Construction began in 1984 on the orders of Nicolae Ceausescu. The building was originally intended as the headquarters of the main government institutions. The palace was built mainly from Romanian-made materials. During construction, there was such a demand for Romanian marble that even tombstones throughout the country were made from other materials. The construction required the destruction of a fifth of the city's historic center and caused noisy protests, as many churches were destroyed. Construction was almost completed by the time of Ceausescu's execution in 1989.

The palace is surrounded by avenues whose scale corresponds to the scale of the Palace. The Boulevard of Uniria (Unification), flanked by white multi-storey buildings, leads to its foot. Before they were built, Ceausescu ordered life-size wooden models of all the buildings to be erected along the new boulevard so that he could make sure that his plans were implemented on the proper scale.

If, having passed the first security post, you approach the Palace from the corner of the Boulevards of Freedom and National Unity, for the time being it hides its true scale.

However, upon reaching the central axis of the facade, it is impossible not to freeze. It is impossible to take in the façade while standing on the upper platform in front of the entrance.

The facades are clad in white Romanian marble with fantastic generosity

Through a series of doors we find ourselves in the building of the Ceausescu Palace

Huge chandelier in the front hall

Doors to the meeting room. There are thousands of them in the palace...

Meeting room of the Ceausescu Palace

Interior details

The interior of the palace is endless and amazing with its decoration (it’s scary to imagine how much money was invested in it)

If we consider that simultaneously with the construction of the Palace (1984-1989), Comrade Ceausescu was paying off Romania’s external debt, building a metro in Bucharest and a canal on the Danube, the picture turns out to be completely terrible. Food shortages, especially protein foods, were terrible. Under Ceausescu, chicken eggs (not to mention normal meat - rations provided ribs rolled into a tube with tendons) could not be obtained for 8 months. At the same time, Ceausescu banned contraception and abortion. It’s scary to even think about how mothers raised their children – and how many women died during illegal abortions. “If you are cold, buy a second coat!” - this is what Ceausescu said), and the House of the People became prettier and grew. Here you can find first-class marble carvings made in national traditions

The palace is considered the world's largest civil administrative building, the largest parliament building, and also the heaviest administrative building in the world. The dimensions of the palace are 270 by 240 m. Height is 86 m. The underground part of the palace goes 92 m deep. The palace has 1100 rooms and 12 floors.

Let's find out more about it...

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The reign of Nicolae Ceausescu left a deep imprint on the architecture of the city of Bucharest. Of course, one of his controversial projects is the Palace of Parliament, a gigantic creation of the former dictator of Romania.

It is alleged that during the reign of Nicolae Ceausescu, the capital of Romania, Bucharest, changed its appearance by 30-35% and, unfortunately, not always for the better. The construction of the Palace of Parliament is part of an extensive urbanization program approved by the Communist Party of Romania and started in 1976.

They say that Ceausescu came up with the idea for this project after his visit to North Korea and a visit to the capital Pyongyang. The large-scale communist buildings of Pyongyang probably impressed the dictator and he decided to build something similar in Bucharest. In 1977, there was a strong earthquake in the city of Bucharest, from which many buildings, including administrative ones, were damaged. This event also served as the reason for the start of a new megalomaniac construction plan new city center.

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Called at that time the House of the People, and today sometimes called the Ceausescu Palace, it was conceived as the core of the new city center of Bucharest, the so-called “Civic Center”.

Around the building of the Palace of Parliament there are huge buildings of the Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Defense of Romania, the Guest House - the current Marriott Hotel and other ministries.

And in front of the main entrance of the palace, there is a large square, the current Square of Constitutions (Piata Constitutiei), from where the long (3 km) and wide (90 meters) Boulevard of Unification begins, which during Ceausescu’s time was called “Victory of Socialism.”

In Romania, it is jokingly called the “Romanian Champs Elysees”. There is an anecdote regarding Ceausescu's megalomania that supposedly the dictator ordered his engineers and architects to build a large boulevard in front of the building, maybe in beauty it would be similar to the Champs Elysees, but most importantly, it should be wider than the Champs Elysees!

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Along this long artery, the “Genius of the Carpathians” ordered the construction of the Palace of Culture, the Tribunal, the National Library, the Palace of Pioneers and Falcons of the Motherland :) and many residential high-rise buildings, high-rise buildings with a North Korean accent. A lot!
And in the center of the boulevard there are fountains, symbols of the counties of Romania, the largest fountain is on Union Square (Piata Unirea), symbolizing the capital, Bucharest.

On the site of this new microdistrict, there used to be ancient elegant quarters, medieval buildings, mansions, churches, valuable for their architectural styles. With sadness, we can mention some destroyed architectural masterpieces: the New Princely Court, the Palace with Archives, the Mihai Voda Monastery of 1589, the Alba Postavari Church 1564, Military Museum and Army Theater, Church of St. Friday 1645, Brancoveanu Hospital 1837, Hospital and Monastery of Pantelimon 1750. One of the main and valuable monuments, barbarically destroyed is the Vacaresti Monastery (early 18th century), which many considered the personification of the Romanian medieval art, without exaggeration, one of the most beautiful monuments of the Orthodox world.

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The area of ​​the entire destroyed and rebuilt territory is equal to the city of Venice! In such a sad way, Bucharest gradually lost the title of “Little Paris” and changed its face. What fires, earthquakes and wars did not do, the leaders of that era did. And unfortunately, all this is irrevocable!

The Palace of the Parliament of the city of Bucharest was built on the highest and most earthquake-resistant place in the city of Bucharest, Spira Hill or Arsenal Hill, as it was previously called because of the military barracks located on this hill. The maximum height of the hill before construction was 18 meters, but from the side of Constitution Square the hill is artificially elevated.

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The Palace of Parliament Bucharest is the second largest administrative building in the world, after the Pentagon. The building is also noted in the Guinness Book of Records as one of the most expensive administrative buildings in the world; in 2006, the cost of the building was estimated at 3 billion euros. The entire area of ​​the Palace of Parliament occupies 330 thousand square meters and the volume is 2.5 million cubic meters, 2% more than the Cheops pyramid in Egypt.
The length of the main facade of the building is 270 meters, the side side is 240 meters. The height of the building, from the foundation to the top, is 178 meters, of which 86 meters above ground level and 92 meters underground. The built-up area above ground level is 66 thousand square meters.

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To build the building they used:
1,000,000 cubic meters of marble
5,500 tons of cement
7,000 tons of steel
20,000 tons of sand
1.000 tons of sand
900,000 cubic meters of wood
3,500 tons of crystal
200,000 cubic meters of glass
2,800 candelabra
220,000 square meters of carpets
3.500 square meters of leather

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By order of Ceausescu, all construction materials were only from Romania, the engineers and architects were Romanians. Allegedly, the dictator wanted to show the whole world that Romania has natural resources and that Romania is capable of carrying out even such gigantic projects.
About 300 architects and about 30 thousand workers worked on the construction of the building, 24 hours, changing in 3 shifts. All work was supervised by the chief architect of the building, a young girl, Anca Petrescu. She was 28 years old when work officially began.

According to the stories of other architects, the fact that Anca Petrescu was an obedient, modest girl from a simple peasant family, pleased Nicholas and Elena Ceausescu, who did not like intellectuals and self-confident scientists and architects, although Elena Ceausescu herself was the so-called “luminary of science” and headed the Academy Sci. Anca Petrescu tried in every possible way to please the dictator, some even began to say that she was a young relative of Elena Ceausescu (Elena’s maiden name was also Petrescu) and in the end it was she who was entrusted with such an important project, although initially, according to the plan, other architects were supposed to lead.

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The ceremonial ceremony of laying the first foundation stone took place on June 25, 1984, but work actually begins already in 1980, when about 40 thousand residents were forcibly overpowered and the neighborhoods where they previously lived were razed to the ground to make way for the Palace of Parliament.

Until 1989 (the year when the revolution against Ceausescu took place) more than 3 billion Romanian lei were spent! And this was at a time when, thanks to the ill-considered economic policy and the policy of repaying the state's external debts, the standard of living of the inhabitants of Romania dropped to its lowest point. The Palace of Parliament was built mostly military, soldiers of the Romanian army. The exact number of deaths during heavy and high-risk construction work is still unknown.

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The work is not 100% finished even now. Before the Revolutions, the interior decoration was completed only in a few halls; in general, the construction and interior decoration of most rooms was completed after the overthrow of the Ceausescu dictatorship.

If you look vertically, you can discern that the building is divided into three registers and looks like a pyramid but with a flat top. There are 12 floors above ground level, and 4 more underground.

The building has about 1000 rooms, of which 440 are offices, 30 halls for conferences and receptions, 4 restaurants, 3 libraries, 2 underground parking lots, a concert hall, and other service premises. The palace has 2 courtyards.
The names of the halls were chosen after 1989, most are named after famous Romanian personalities.

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The building houses the Romanian Parliament, there is a large meeting room for the Deputies' Room, as well as the Senate Hall.
The Museum of Contemporary Art is also open to visitors in the Palace of Parliament.

Every year, international or national conferences, seminars, congresses, exhibitions, and negotiations are also held in the halls of the palace. The halls are rented out for numerous events.

The Palace of the Bucharest Parliament is often included in tourist routes; several halls are visited by tourists. Particularly impressive are the Unification Hall, the Hall of Human Rights, the Main Entrance and the Main Gallery. Tourists have the opportunity to go out onto the balcony of the Cuza Protocol Hall from where an interesting panorama of the Constitution Square and the “Romanian Champs Elysees” opens. Fields" Boulevard Uniriy (Associations).

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Front Gallery

This is a long corridor, 150 meters, with a width of 18 meters. Divided into three parts by sliding oak doors with crystal. The ceiling is covered with gypsum plaster with colored ornaments in the Romanian Brancovan style.
The central floor, in front of the official entrance, consists of 4 types of Romanian marble: white, beige, red and black, from the area of ​​Rusca or Moneasa. The vaults of the Front Gallery are supported by 34 octagonal columns, 17 on each side, made of white marble, with decorative ornaments.

The gallery is illuminated by natural light, 14 windows and 67 crystal candelabra. This gallery intersects with the main Official Entrance, from one of the largest squares in the city of Bucharest, Unirea Square (Piata Unirea).
Here you will also see 2 monumental staircases that lead to the Senate Hall and the Cuza Hall. Each staircase has a window with a height of 16 meters, which are covered with curtains. The weight of each curtain is 250 kg! The height of the steps is 14-16 cm, made specifically for the height of Nicholas and Elena Ceausescu, so that they do not get tired when walking up the stairs.

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It is named in honor of the Prince of Wallachia and Moldova, Alexandru Cuza. This hall was to be called: the Romania hall and was intended for protocols, for negotiations and the signing of agreements at the highest level, between countries. The height of the hall is 20 meters. It is the second largest hall with an area of ​​2040 square meters.

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Unira Hall

Intended for balls and banquets. Height 15 meters, area about 2000 sq. m.
The carpet in this hall weighs 3 tons, 1100 square meters and covers the central part of the hall, under the ceiling. The ceiling patterns are reflected on the carpet. There is a very strong echo in the hall.

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Rosseti Hall

Here is the largest candelabra (chandelier?), which contains 5 tons of crystal!

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Hall of Human Rights

It was intended as a meeting room for the Central Committee of the Communist Parties of Romania. The interior decoration was completed before 1989. In the center of the hall there is a large round table with original chairs for members of the Committee. The Ceausescu chair was in the stages of production at the time of the Revolutions. The beauty of the second heaviest candelabra, 3 tons of crystal, is impressive. The candelabra model is reflected on the carpet.

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- the world's largest civil administrative building, the largest parliament building (with an area of ​​350 thousand square meters and a volume of 2,550 thousand square meters), as well as the heaviest structure in the world.

For many years, the Ceausescu Palace was the second largest building in the world in terms of area after the Pentagon. The palace was originally called the "House of the People", but in the post-communist era its name was changed to the "Palace of Parliament". But the locals still call him by his former name.

The dimensions of the Ceausescu Palace are impressive: 270 by 240 meters. Height - 86 meters. The underground part of the palace has a height of 92 meters. In total, the palace has 12 floors and 1100 rooms. Four underground levels have already been completed and are in use, and a further four levels are in various stages of completion.

About 1,000,000 square meters were spent on the construction of this monumental structure. meters brought from Ruškica, 3,500 tons of crystal (1,409 mirrors and ceiling lamps, 480 chandeliers), 700,000 tons of bronze and steel for windows, doors, capitals and chandeliers. 900,000 square meters were spent on creating luxurious floors and wall decoration. wood and wall panels (oak, hazel, cherry, maple, elm). The floors of the castle are covered with carpets of various sizes, their total area is 200,000 square meters. meters! Machines were even specially brought to the Ceausescu Palace to make giant carpets right on the spot.

The palace building defies clear classification because it combines elements of several architectural styles.

The Ceausescu Palace is located on. Construction of the palace began in 1984 by order.

The building was built as the headquarters of the main government institutions. The palace was built entirely from Romanian-made materials, so during its construction, the demand for Romanian marble increased so much that even tombstones throughout the country began to be made from other materials.

The construction of the palace required the destruction of a fifth of the historical center of the city, which caused noisy protests. Temples and ancient buildings were destroyed, people were indignant!

By the time of Ceausescu's execution in 1989, construction was almost complete.

Picturesque avenues surround the palace, and their scope is consistent with the scale of the Palace. Unirii Boulevard, flanked by white multi-storey buildings, leads to the foot of the Ceausescu Palace.

Before their construction, Ceausescu gave the order to build life-size models of all wooden buildings along the new boulevard. Thus, he wanted to make sure that his plans were implemented on the proper scale.

If you decide to approach the Palace from the corner of National Unity and Freedom Boulevard, for the time being it hides its true scale.

As soon as you reach the central axis of the facade, you will be amazed! An immense building will appear before your eyes, which is impossible to fully examine while standing on the upper platform in front of the entrance! The facades of all buildings are lined with white Romanian marble, which sparkles in the sun!

Now you and your guide walk through a series of doors into the Ceausescu Palace building!

The interior of this building is incredibly elegant and amazes with the richness of its decoration! To this day, the authorities hide the true amount that was spent on the construction of this amazing palace!

Imagine, at the time when this Palace was being built, Comrade Ceausescu managed to pay off the external debt of Romania, build a metro in Bucharest, as well as a canal on the Danube. was on the verge of ruin!

This state suffered a terrible food shortage, especially protein food.

People stood in lines for 8 months in order to buy chicken eggs or at least some meat (if that is what you can call the rolled-up ribs on tendons, issued with ration cards).

During these same years, Ceausescu banned abortion and contraception. Horrible statistics about how mothers raised their children - and how many women died during illegal abortions - are still on the lips of local residents.

“If you are cold, buy a second coat!” - Ceausescu said, and the “House of the People” grew and became prettier.

In the castle you can find first-class marble carvings made in national traditions, as well as those of Stephen the Great and Alexander Ion Cuza.

Overall, the building of the Chasescu Palace is impressive, if you don’t know how much its construction cost the Romanian people!

Contacts:
Address: Strada Izvor 2-4, București, Romania
Phone: +40 21 316 0300