Victoria Palace

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Government building Palatul Victoria , Bucharest, 2006
Corridor inside

The Victoria Palace ( Romanian Palatul Victoria ) on - the eponymous - Victory Square ( Piața Victoriei ) in Bucharest is the seat of government in Romania . The building was built from 1937 to 1944 according to plans by Duiliu Marcu (1885–1966) and, after war damage, was restored in a slightly simplified manner by 1952. In the communist era it housed the Council of Ministers and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1990 it became the seat of the first post-communist government.

Marcu conceived the palace in the forms of the factual neoclassicism of the interwar period as part of an urban planning comprising several representative buildings. The building consists of a long north-south wing with a facade facing Siegesplatz and three side wings branching off at right angles to the east. It was originally with Carrara marble and figurative relief - panels disguised by a post-war travertine were replaced.

Web links

Commons : Victoria Palace  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Information (website of the Romanian government, Romanian)

Coordinates: 44 ° 27 '9.9 "  N , 26 ° 5' 14.2"  E