Creţulescu (Kretzulescu) Palace, Bucharest

It has been built for the Creţulescu family at the beginning of the 20th century, by Romanian architect Petre Antonescu.

Since 1972, it houses the headquarters of UNESCO's European Centre for Higher Education UNESCO-CEPES..

Cotroceni Palace, Bucharest

Seat of the President, former Royal Palace, built for King Carol I of Romania in 1888, on a 1679 foundation. Arch. Paul Gottereau

Palace of Justice, Bucharest

Built between 1890 and 1895 Architects: Albert Ballu and Ion Mincu

Cantacuzino Palace, Bucharest

Built between 1898 and 1900 for Gheorghe Grigore Cantacuzino Arch. Ioan D.Berindei Now National Museum“George Enescu”

The Royal Palace, Bucharest

Built between 1927 and 1937 Arch. D. Niculescu Now National Museum of Art

Elisabeta Palace, Bucharest

It is currently the stately home of King Michael I of Romania. The palace was designed in 1930 by the Architect Marcu and built in 1936 for Princess Elisabeta, the former queen of Greece and sister of King Carol I.

Şuţu Palace, Bucharest

Built between 1833 and 1835 Now Museum of the City of Bucharest

Architects: Conrad Schwink and Johann Veit Neogothic style

Romanit Palace, Bucharest (now Museum of the Art Collections)

Palace of the Parliament (also called People’s House), Bucharest

The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceauescu regime as the seat of political and administrative power. Its construction started in It is a multi-purpose building containing both chambers of the Romanian Parliament.

The Palace measures 270 m (890 ft) by 240 m (790 ft), 86 m (282 ft) high, and 92 m (302 ft) underground. It has 1,100 rooms, 2 underground parking garages and is 12 stories tall, with four underground levels currently available for the general public and in use, and another four in different stages of completion. The floor space is 340,000 m 2 (3,700,000 sq ft). It is the world's second largest building after the Pentagon.

Architects: 7oo under the coordination of Arch. Anca Petrescu

Mogoşoaia Palace

The palace is situated about 10 km away of Bucharest. It was built between by Constantin Brâncoveanu in what is called the Romanian Renaissance style or Brâncovenesc style, a combination of Venetian and Ottoman elements.

Snagov Palace, 40km NE of Bucharest

Snagov Palace was built in the early thirties of the 20th Century by Henrieta Delavrancea- Gibory for prince Nicholas of Romania.

Palace of Culture, Iaşi

Built between , Arch. Ion D. Berindei Architectural style: neo-Gothic

The Palace has 298 large rooms with a total area of over 36,000 m 2 (390,000 sq ft), 92 windows in the front part of the building and another 36 inside the building.

The Palace of Culture - Moldova National Museum Complex of Iaşi - hosts four museums: The Museum of Art, The Museum of History, The Museum of Ethnography, and The Museum of Science and Technology.

Roznovanu Palace, Iaşi Now The City Hall

It was built in the second half of the 18th century and rebuilt between 1830 and Arch. Gustav Freywald

Palace Jean Mihail, Craiova

Built between 1899 and 1907, Arch. Paul Gottereau Now Art Museum

Bánffy Palace, Cluj-Napoca

It is a baroque building of the 18th century in Cluj-Napoca, designed by the German architect Johann Eberhard Blaumann. Now Art Museum.

Brukenthal Summer Palace, Avrig

Located at 30 km away of Sibiu. Built between 1780 and 1785 Architecture: Baroque style

Cenad Palace, Arad

Built between 1892 and 1894, arch. Jivaszek Eclecticism and neoclassical architecture

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