'''Romania’s House of the Republic''' refers to the 1,500-room House of the Republic, from the [[Romania|Romanian]] capital city of [[Bucharest]], which sits vacant and unfinished, surrounded by a marble-and-concrete plaza. The 11-storey structure, equipped with an underground railway stop and bomb shelter, was the most ambitious building project of [[Romania|Romania’s]] [[Communist]] president [[Nicolae Ceausescu]]. During the last ten years that he was in office, Ceausescu ordered many historic churches, temples, parks, and 19th-century homes be torn down to make way for the palace. At the time of his death in [[1989]] (he and his wife, Elena, were tried and executed), about 27,000 workers, many of them soldiers, were at work on the project.
