Romania’s House of the Republic

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Romania’s House of the Republic refers to the 1,500-room House of the Republic, from the 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’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.