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Romania This picture shows Unirii Square: view towards the Palace of Parliament. It was taken on a travel to Bucharest, Romania, Europe. It is one of the 6595 of travel photographs you can find on Traveladventures.org. You can click on the picture to see more pictures of Bucharest. You can also send it as a free electronic postcard or download it for free, by following the links under the picture. Alternatively, you can follow the tags under the picture to find other travel pictures of a particular theme, or switch to another language. Enjoy your travel with pictures from all over the world! Show on map Locate Union Avenue on map Other languages: \| \| \| \| Categories Architecture Art Bridges City & Cityscape Coastline Culture & Religion Doors & Windows Events History Landscape Nature People Transportation Various	Picture of Unirii Square: view towards the Palace of Parliament (Bucharest, Romania) Looking towards the Palace of Parliament from Unirii Square Send image of Unirii Square: view towards the Palace of Parliament as a free postcard Download picture of Unirii Square: view towards the Palace of Parliament Purchase Unirii Square: view towards the Palace of Parliament (Romania) Dominated by the colossal Palace of Parliament, the Bulevardul Unirii was intended to rival Champs Elysees but is mostly interesting for its old fashioned Communist architecture. Ceausescu had grandiose ideas, and one of them was to reconstruct Bucharest with a socialist vision in mind. It is no secret that Ceausescu was a good friend and admirer of Kim il Sung, and his most megalomanic ideas were probably born in Pyongyang. The latter a city with wide boulevards (without traffic), statues and monuments everywhere; it was soon clear Bucharest needed some major works to allow for similar constructions. Those major works were indeed carried out, entire neighbourhoods were razed to accomodate the building of the Centru Civic. This was to be the district for the state administration, and the boulevard had to impress everyone: it was deliberately designed to be just larger than the Champs Elysees in Paris. Read more about: Union Avenue Tags for this picture: \| \| \| \| Bucharest Vancouver car tram Europe North America flower lake grey green red yellow Romania Mexico square skyline street park Union Avenue Debre Damo Monastery
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