Revolution Square, Bucharest
Revolution Square (
Romanian Revolution of December 1989
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The former Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform.[1]
Prior to 1948, an
Minister of Culture decided to recreate the destroyed statue from a model that was kept by Meštrović's family. In 2007, the Bucharest City Hall assigned the project to the sculptor Florin Codre. The statue's design, inspired by Meštrović's model, has been accused of plagiarism.[2] The statue was unveiled in December 2010.[3]
In August 1968 and December 1989, the square was the site of two mass meetings which represented the apogee and the nadir of
regime
.
Image gallery
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University of Bucharest Library -
National Museum of Art -
Statue of King Carol I -
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References
- ^ (in Romanian) Casă nouă - Blaga se mută în fostul CC al PCR ("New HQ: Blaga Moves to the Building of the Former Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party") Archived 2014-05-04 at the Wayback Machine, in Jurnalul Național, March 24, 2006
- ^ (in Romanian) Statuia ecvestră a lui Carol I, amplasată în Piața Revoluției ("Carol's Equestrian Statue, To Be Located in the Revolution Square"), in Gândul, March 28, 2007
- ^ "Statuia Regelui Carol I din Piaţa Palatului, dezvelită de principesa Margareta şi primarul Capitalei". Mediafax (in Romanian). 7 December 2010. Retrieved 2023-07-30.
- ^ (in Romanian) Regimul Ceaușescu - de la mitingul din 1968 la cel din 1989 Archived 2013-11-01 at the Wayback Machine, "Ceaușescu Regime: From the 1968 to the 1989 Mass Meeting", in Jurnalul Național, December 21, 2005
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