palaces in romania
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- 1. Creulescu (Kretzulescu) Palace,
Bucharest - 2. It has been built for the Creulescu family
at the beginning of the 20th century, by Romanian architect Petre Antonescu. - 3. Since 1972, it houses the headquarters of UNESCO's European
Centre for Higher Education UNESCO-CEPES..
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- 5. Cotroceni Palace,
Bucharest - 6. Seat of the President, former Royal Palace, built for King
Carol I of Romania in 1888, on a 1679 foundation.
Arch. Paul Gottereau - 7.
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- 11. Palace of Justice,
Bucharest - 12. Built between 1890 and 1895
Architects: Albert Ballu and Ion Mincu - 13. Cantacuzino Palace,
Bucharest - 14. Built between 1898 and 1900
for Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino
Arch. Ioan D.Berindei
Now National MuseumGeorge Enescu - 15.
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- 17. The Royal Palace,
Bucharest - 18. Built between 1927 and 1937
Arch. D. Niculescu
Now National Museum of Art - 19.
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- 21. Elisabeta Palace,
Bucharest - 22. It is currently the stately home
of King Michael I of Romania. The palace was designed in 1930 by the Architect Marcu and built in 1936 for Princess Elisabeta, the former queen of Greece and sister of King Carol I. - 23.
- 24. uu Palace,
Bucharest - 25. Built between 1833 and 1835
Now Museum of the City of Bucharest - 26. Architects: Conrad Schwink and Johann Veit
Neogothic style - 27.
- 28. Romanit Palace, Bucharest
(now Museum of the Art Collections) - 29. Palace of the Parliament
(also called Peoples House), Bucharest - 30. The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the
Ceauescu regime as the seat of political and administrative power.
Its construction started in 1984.
It is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Parliament. - 31. The Palace measures 270 m (890 ft) by 240 m (790 ft), 86 m
(282 ft) high, and 92 m (302 ft) underground. It has 1,100 rooms, 2
underground parking garages and is 12 stories tall, with four
underground levels currently available for the general public and
in use, and another four in different stages of completion. The
floor space is 340,000 m2 (3,700,000 sq ft). It is the world's
second largest building after the Pentagon.
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- 33. Architects: 7oo under the coordination of Arch. Anca
Petrescu
- 34. Mogooaia Palace
- 35. The palace is situated about 10 km away of Bucharest.
It was built between 1698-1702 by Constantin Brncoveanu in what is called the Romanian Renaissance style or Brncovenesc style, a combination of Venetian and Ottoman elements. - 36.
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- 39. Snagov Palace,
40km NE of Bucharest - 40. Snagov Palace was built in the early thirties of the 20th
Century by Henrieta Delavrancea-Gibory for prince Nicholas of
Romania.
- 41. Palace of Culture, Iai
- 42. Built between 1906-1925, Arch. Ion D. Berindei
Architectural style: neo-Gothic - 43. The Palace has 298 large rooms with a total area of over
36,000 m2 (390,000 sq ft), 92 windows in the front part of the
building and another 36 inside the building.
- 44. The Palace of Culture - Moldova National Museum Complex of
Iai -hosts four museums: The Museum of Art, The Museum of History,
The Museum of Ethnography, and The Museum of Science and
Technology.
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- 47. Roznovanu Palace,
Iai
Now The City Hall - 48. It was built in the second half of the 18th century and
rebuilt between 1830 and 1833.
Arch. Gustav Freywald - 49. PalaceJean Mihail,
Craiova - 50. Built between 1899 and 1907, Arch. Paul Gottereau
Now Art Museum - 51.
- 52. Bnffy Palace,
Cluj-Napoca - 53. It is a baroque building of the 18th century in
Cluj-Napoca, designed by the German architect Johann Eberhard
Blaumann.
Now Art Museum. - 54. Brukenthal Summer Palace,Avrig
- 55. Located at 30 km away of Sibiu.
Built between 1780 and 1785
Architecture: Baroque style - 56.
- 57. Cenad Palace,
Arad - 58. Built between 1892 and 1894, arch. Jivaszek
Eclecticism and neoclassical architecture - 59.
- 60. Images and text : Internet
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