The demolished Bucharest (Bucharest)

Romania / Bukarest / Bucharest
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The demolished Bucharest in the 1980s, under which eight square kilometers in the historic center of Bucharest were leveled, including monasteries, churches, synagogues, a hospital and a noted Art Deco sports stadium. This also involved evicting 40,000 people with only a single day's notice and relocating them to new homes, in order to make way for the grandiose Civic Center and the immense "House of the People", now officially renamed as the "Palace of Parliament".
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceauşima
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Coordinates:   44°25'25"N   26°6'5"E

Comments

  • No doubt, such a crazy project can be made only from a communist dictator. However, now Bucharest have one really personable appearance.
  • Someone did notessed, good job Madalin, I was just curios how many people know about this stuff.
  • well Ceausescu demolished much of old Bucuresti but it can't be compared to what Baron von Haussman done with Paris in the second half of the 19th century, was simply erased from the face of France. Other 'Bucuresti' were Rome & Vienna .
  • @city of hermann The difference is that haussman turned a medieval Paris into a beautifulL and modern one, with grand boulevards, gardens and promenade,culture areas.Ceauchesku and the communists destroyed Bucharest when the city had reached his peak ( immediately after interwar period).
  • ofcourse killer . you are right but my point was only the quantity not the quality. ofcourse that bucharest's architecture today can't be compared with paris
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