the effects of communism
Palace of the Parliament: the road from shame and horror to glory and pride
During the construction of the People's House, over 200 main architects, about 20,000 workers, 5,000 soldiers and a few other thousand 'volunteers' worked for 7 uninterrupted years. They left us a still unfinished monument that is proudly the second-largest administrative building in the world, after the American Pentagon.
Bragadiru beer factory
Working from childhood as an apprentice in liquor making, Dumitru Marinescu Bragadiru proved that Bucharest was once the city of all possibilities. The Bragadiru factory (later known as Rahova), now in ruins, was based on the ambitions of a young visionary who understood that people in the southern part of the country preferred beer.
