Casa Poporului

Bucharest’s Tallest Buildings (2)

by Craig Turp January 26, 2012 Bucharest

Remember this post from last year about Bucharest’s tallest buildings? Well, we decided to develop the idea and write a feature on the tallest buildings in Bucharest for the next edition of Bucharest In Your Pocket. We will post a link to the feature here when it is completed. Anyway, having researched the city’s tallest [...]

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Home in Bucharest (No. 4): Bulevardul Unirii

by Craig Turp August 22, 2011 Bucharest

A quick reminder: This mini-series of posts is not intended to be a definitive list of Bucharest‘s districts, complete with lengthy descriptions. Instead, it is a rather self-indulgent look at the little bits of Bucharest in which we have lived, and how they have changed over the years. We have decided to do this for [...]

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The Worlds Biggest Mall?

by Craig Turp January 15, 2010 Bucharest

(Or, You Couldn’t Make It Up: Part 67) It appears that there is a growing consensus amongst Romania’s MPs (who yesterday generously voted for a whopping zero per cent increase in the basic state pension) to move out of their current home: Casa Poporului, allegedly the second largest building in the world. The MPs appear [...]

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Tear down that wall!

by Craig Turp December 2, 2009 Bucharest

Excellent post today from The Zvoner (Adrian Mihaltianu) about the ugly wall that surrounds the grounds of Casa Poporului. Basically, for the benefit of those who do not speak Romanian, he’s saying that the wall should come down, and the vast acres of land which are now desolate and shabby be put to good use. [...]

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