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Bucharest In Your Pocket - Piaţa Revoluţiei (Revolution Square)
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Temat: Podróże
In the middle of Piaţa Revoluţiei is a memorial to the people who were killed in the revolution of 1989.
Over 1,000 people were killed in the capital and to this day nobody is sure who killed them, why and on whose orders.
The names of those who were killed are engraved on the walls that you can see behind me.
And the centrepiece of this memorial is the huge obelisk which stands in front of me now
and which the people of Bucharest, somewhat unkindly perhaps, call 'the olive on the cocktail stick'.
The building of the Romanian Interior Ministry behind me, was until 1989 the HQ of the Communist Party Central Committee
and it is from this balcony that Nicolae Ceauşescu gave his last speech on December 21, 1989.
He was booed in this square, Piaţa Revoluţiei, by a crowd which had actually been brought in to cheer him.
The following day he fled by helicopter from the roof. He was captured a little later and was shot on Christmas Day 1989.
Most of the people who were killed in the revolution were actually killed in this square
and almost all of them were killed after Ceauşescu had fled the building.
The house behind me on the edge of Piaţa Revoluţiei was badly damaged in the revolution of 1989.
It was taken over by the Romanian association of architects who turned it into the quite astonishing building we see today.
They kept the original shell and put a modern office building inside.
On the ground floor there is the café where you can enjoy a coffee.
It's called 'IO espresso'.
