Ceausescu Mansion in Bucharest, Romania
Ceausescu Mansion in Bucharest, Romania
There’s no better place to visit in Romania than Ceausescu Mansion to understand the double standards of the communist regime or the absurd cult of personality of one of its most ruthless dictators.
Opened in 2016 for visitors, Ceausescu Mansion was back in the dark and freezing communist days one of the best-kept secrets of the regime. Only the closest members of the family and the highest rank party members had access to Ceausescu’s residence. Why all the secrecy you wonder if he was ‘the first son of the nation’ who was guiding Romania to the ‘Golden Age’?
From shoemaker apprentice to communist dictator
To make the best out of your visit, you should know a few things about Nicolae Ceausescu before. Born in 1918, in a poor family of peasants, young Ceausescu aspired to be a shoemaker and didn’t complete more than his primary education studies. That didn’t prove to be a big problem for his future career as most communist party members had a complete lack of academic education.
He never got to practice his shoemaking skills as very soon after he moved to Bucharest, he became a communist activist. The Romanian Communist Party was already illegal, since 1924, by the time Ceausescu joined its very heterogeneous lines. He was imprisoned a few times, but not for such a long time as other preeminent members of the party, and many legends exist regarding his time in prison, from who his cellmates were to his love life.
Later in life, he made up for his scarce illegality activity through falsification, a preferred practice of the party. He even falsified photos to make sure he had proof of his revolutionary past that became a national celebration during his cult of personality days.
After 1948, Ceausescu meticulously created a network of supporting members at local and central level. In 1965, he was the unlikely successor of dying Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej – the first communist dictator –, but he was clever enough to surprise everyone when he won the nomination.
For over three decades, he was in complete control of all the decisions made in communist Romania. Posing as a rebel of the communist world to get funding and attention from the US, Ceausescu had life and death power in Romania and no moral or fear of God stopped him from using it.
He invented the President function for himself and awarded his ignorant, evil and revengeful wife, Elena, with the third position in the state, although she was de facto the second most powerful person of Romania and the most detested one. Even the party members hated and despised her. So bad that leaving her in charge in the days of the 1989 Revolution led to their betrayal by the army and the party.
While posing in humble and down to earth people, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu lived in ostentatious contrast to the values they were preaching and the lack of space and basic resources the Romanian people were enduring. Their top-secret residence was off the radar and off limits because the communist ideology of equality came with a stunning indoor swimming pool, a spa, thousands of dresses, a cinema room and much more. Some were more equals than others in communist Romania.
Visiting the home of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu
The home of the dictatorial couple from 1965 until their execution in December 1989, Ceausescu Mansion was, in fact, built for the first communist leader, Gheorghe Gheorghiu Dej, who didn’t get to use it during his life.
Located on one of the most expensive streets in Bucharest, Primaverii, in a neighborhood where only the most trusted party member had their residences, the mansion also known as Primaverii Palace hides more history than we can possibly imagine.
The original construction was enlarged for the Ceausescu family and decorated with luxurious furniture, original Iranian carpets and many paintings of important Romanian artists like Dumitru Ghiata, Octav Bancila, Camil Ressu, hand-made tapestries that decorate entire walls and expensive porcelain vases. The most impressive space, the swimming pool hall, is an enormous mosaic puzzle created in two years by artists Olga Porumbaru and Florin Parvulescu.
The guided tour of the house will take you seeing the home office of Nicolae Ceausescu, his three children’s apartments, the apartment he shared with his wife and also their famous golden bathroom. The cinema room with original Phillips technology, the dining space, the cellar, the winter garden with tropical plants, an impressive wardrobe, a spa area, a day apartment for Elena Ceausescu and the incredible swimming pool complete the tour. The bunker and the portraits’ gallery are included in the private tour visits.
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The “Ceauşescu Mansion” was for a quarter of a century (1965-1989) the private residence of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu and of their children, Nicu, Zoia, and Valentin.
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Palace of the Parliament + Nicolae Ceausescu Mansion | Bucharest
It's impossible to miss the Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest - like literally impossible. It's huge. It's the heaviest building in the world. We tried to dive just a little bit deeper to discover more about the man who commissioned it - Nicolae Ceausescu - by visiting the mansion he lived in during his time in office. It's a complicated history, one that we admittedly only have a very basic understanding of, but the buildings were awe inspiring.
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EXCLUSIVE Tour of Villa of Nicolae & Elena Ceaușescu
Nicolae & Elena Ceaușescu were executed December 25, 1989, but before the anti-communist movement in Eastern-Europe they were living an incredibly luxurious life highlighted by their gorgeous 4,500 square meter villa. We were granted an exclusive behind the ropes tour of the decadent home including the apartments of the children, the spa, the pool and the personal dressing rooms of the Dictator and his Wife. This tour showcases things not seen in normal tours on the site and is not to be missed. If you are hoping to see the private space of a communist dictator do not miss this video!
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Built in the 80's by the dictator and mentally disturbed Nicolae Ceausescu, located in Bucharest, Romania, the Palace has 1000 rooms and is a testament to ugly excessive architecture. Now available to tour, this is one tour to take to experience how 100,000 people built an edifice to glorify 1 person and the Communist party. So come and enjoy the tour of a building that is hardly used anymore but gives a sense to the silly grandeur and symbol of crazy government intentions gone wrong.
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The Romanian authorities have opened the doors of the official residence of former communist President Nicolae Ceaușescu.
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Romania: Ceausescu's glamorous residence opens to public in Bucharest
The private residence of Romania's deceased former leader Nicolae Ceausescu located in Bucharest’s Primaverii neighbourhood was opened up to the public for the first time on Saturday.
Visitors will now be able to take in Ceausescu’s opulent 80-room residence, including its peacock-filled gardens, the renowned art work that hangs in its corridors, as well as diamond-studded mirrors and gold-plated ceilings.
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Ceausescu`s Palace, Bucharest, Romania.
Few raw shoots of Ceausescu`s Palace (Palace of the Parliament).
The Palace of the Parliament (Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului) is the seat of the Parliament of Romania. Located on Dealul Arsenalului in central Bucharest (Sector 5), it is the largest administrative building in the world[1] with a height of 84 metres (276 ft), an area of 365,000 square metres (3,930,000 sq ft) and a volume of 2,550,000 cubic metres (90,000,000 cu ft). In terms of weight, the Palace of the Parliament is the heaviest building in the world, weighing in at around 4,098,500,000 kilograms (9.0356×109 lb).[2]
After the earthquake of March 4th 1977, Nicolae Ceaușescu started a reconstruction plan of Bucharest. The People's House was the center of this project. Named Project Bucharest, it was an ambitious project of Ceaușescu's begun in 1978 as an intended replica of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. A systematization project existed since the 1930s (during the time of Carol II) for the Unirii–Dealul Arsenalului area. Its construction was organized as a contest and won by Anca Petrescu, who was appointed chief architect of the project when she was just 28. In total, the team that coordinated the work was made up of 10 architects, which supervised a further 700.[10] Construction of the Palace began on June 25th 1984, and the inauguration of the work was attended by Ceaușescu.
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Palatul Parlamentului din București, România cunoscut înainte de revoluție sub numele de Casa Republicii sau Casa Poporului[2]), măsoară 270 m pe 240 m, 86 m înălțime, și 92 m sub pământ. Are 9 nivele la suprafață și alte 9 subterane. Conform World Records Academy, Palatul Parlamentului este a doua cea mai mare clădire administrativă pentru uz civil ca suprafață din lume, si cea mai scumpă clădire administrativă din lume și cea mai grea clădire din lume.[3] Clădirea Palatului Parlamentului se află situată în partea centrală a Bucureștiului (sector 5), pe locul care astăzi se cheamă Dealul Arsenalului, încadrat de strada Izvor la vest și nord-vest, Bulevardul Națiunile Unite spre nord, Bulevardul Libertății la est și Calea 13 Septembrie la sud. Aceasta se află la 10 minute distanță de Piața Unirii și 20 de minute de Gara de Nord (cu autobuzul 123).
Dealul pe care se află astăzi Palatul Parlamentului este în general o creație a naturii, având o înălțime inițială de 18 m, dar partea dinspre Bulevardul Libertății este înălțată în mod artificial.....
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Nicolae Ceausescu was Romania’s last communist leader, and he left quite an impression on the city of Bucharest, from the razed old town to make way for the new Palace of the Parliament, to the blocks and blocks of huge apartment buildings to house the displaced citizens, to the opulent, over-the-top mansion he had built in the city for himself and his family. That house has recently been opened to the public as a museum. Come along with me on this video tour.
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Working visit of the President of Romania at a grocery store, Bucharest (1989)
Nicolae Ceaușescu, (born January 26, 1918, Scornicești, Romania—died December 25, 1989, near Bucharest) Communist official who was leader of Romania from 1965 until he was overthrown and killed in a revolution in 1989.
Bucharest: Home of Romania's Ceausescu opened to the public
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The opulent former residence of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was opened to the public for the first time on Saturday some 26 years after the fall of his Communist regime.
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Bucharest: 2nd Largest Building in the World - Michael Palin's New Europe - BBC
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After the Pentagon, the Romanian parliament building is the second largest building in the world. In this clip from the BBC travel documentary, Michael Palin visits the Bucharest building with an astonishing 1,000 rooms.
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Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu lived for 25 years with their sons Nicu and Valentin and daughter Zoe in the private residence with its 80 rooms, tropical garden, swimming pool, spa and a subterranean bunker.
Built in the mid-60s, during Ceauşescu’s ascent to power, Palatul Primaverii is located in the Primaverii neighbourhood of Bucharest, which was favoured by the Communist nomenklatura (key figures in the administration).
Inside Ceausescu residence, an impression of absolute luxury and indulgence is composed by extravagant decoration, majestic marble staircases, impressive wood carvings, invaluable mosaics, tapestries, and unique pieces of furniture.
Some of the highlights are the former communist leader’s study, the beautifully decorated living room with a view on the interior garden, where US President Richard Nixon was welcomed during his 1969 visit to Romania, and the Louis XV day study, a copy of a room of the Palace of Versailles and a cinema in the basement.
The mansion surprises with its opulence, especially given that the majority of the people experienced severe scarcity of basic products during Ceauşescu’s rule. For instance, the water taps in the main bathroom decorated with golden mosaic are gilded.
Bucharest Romania A Walk to Ceausescu Iconic Palace. Parliament Building 2019
A walk to one of world's biggest buildings from Union Square in center Bucharest, Romania. The iconic House of the People, buit by communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. No filters. No tricks. Filmed at he end of may 2019
Tour of Ceauşescu's Palace in Bucharest, Romania
You have to see it to believe it. A guided tour of Ceauşescu's Palace (officially Palace of the Parliament, in Romanian: Palatul Parlamentului, formerly Casa Poporului), the world's largest civillian administrative building. It is the heaviest building on earth and one of the few that can still be identified from space. The as yet uncompleted Palace measures 270 m by 245 m, with a height of 86 m, and goes 92 m deep below the ground. It has 1,100 rooms and currently houses the Romanian parliament which, however, takes up only a fraction of the available space. The volume of the building was planned the be 2% greater than the Cheops pyramid in Egypt and is second only to the Pentagon in the United States.
The building is constructed entirely of materials from Romania. It is estimated to contain one million cubic meters of marble and 3,500 tonnes of crystal. 480 chandeliers as well as 1,409 ceiling lights and mirrors were manufactured. 700,000 tonnes of steel and bronze for monumental doors and windows, chandeliers and capitals were used. It contains 900,000 m³ of wood for parquet and wainscotting, including walnut, oak, sweet cherry, elm, sycamore and maple as well as 200,000 m² of woolen carpets of various dimensions, with machines having had to be moved inside the building to weave some of the larger carpets. Hundreds of architects, under the leadership of Anca Petrescu, were involved in the project of building the Palace, which began in 1983. Its total costs were estimated to have been 3 billion euros at 2006 value.
Many ordinary Romanians paid a very high price for the palace's construction. It required much of Bucharest's historic district to be demolished, including 19 Orthodox churches, six synagogues and three Protestant churches. Eight churches were relocated, and 30,000 people lost their dwellings.