"Destination: Bucharest" – Tracing the marks of the communist era in the Capital city

Bucharest has many buildings and monuments made during the communist period or associated with it, all standing testimony to an era when the regime that was in power asserted its importance by choosing a certain architectural style. Let’s have a walk and discover buildings and places in Bucharest that will help understand Romania’s communist period.

Tracing the marks of the communist era in Bucharest takes one from the north part of the city – the former Casa Scânteii building – to downtown, with several representative buildings for the era, then east, to the Militari neigborhood – a typical one of blocks of flats built during communism.