Piaţa Unirii, as seen from above. Unirii Boulevard runs left-right across the picture; the buildings at top (south) and right (west) are part of Centrul Civic

Centrul Civic (literally "the Civic Center") is a portion of Bucharest, Romania which was completely rebuilt as part of the scheme of systematization under the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu. Bucharest (Romanian: BucureÅŸti ) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania. ... The skyline of many cities became dominated by standardized apartment blocks Beginning in 1974, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu began a program of systematization, consisting largely of the demolition and reconstruction of existing villages, towns, and cities, in whole or in part, with the stated goal of turning Romania... Nicolae CeauÅŸescu (IPA ) (January 26, 1918 - December 25, 1989) was the leader of Communist Romania from 1965 until shortly before his execution. ...

Bucharest had taken significant damage due to Allied bombing during World War II and the earthquake of March 4, 1977. However, neither of these events changed the face of the city as much as the redevelopment schemes of the 1980s, under which eight square kilometers in the historic center of Bucharest were leveled, including monasteries, churches, synagogues, a hospital, and a noted Art Deco sports stadium. This also involved evicting 40,000 people with only a single day's notice and relocating them to new homes, in order to make way for the grandiose Centrul Civic and the immense Palace of the People, now officially renamed as the Palace of Parliament. The bombing of Bucharest (the capital of Romania) in World War II comprised operations by the Allies and Axis Powers at separate intervals in 1944. ... A collapsed building The 1977 Romanian Earthquake occurred on 4 March 1977, 21:20 local time, was felt throughout the Balkans, had a magnitude of 7. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Asheville City Hall. ... The Palace of the Parliament (Palatul Parlamentului) in Bucharest, Romania is reputed to be the largest building in Europe at 350,000 m². It is probably the third largest building in the world right after The Pentagon and the Merchandise Mart. ...

Centrul Civic is a complex of modern concrete buildings with marble façades, centered on a boulevard originally known as the Boulevard of the Victory of Socialism, renamed after the 1989 revolution as Unification ("Unirii") Boulevard. The Boulevard, modeled after Paris's Champs-Élysées and a few meters longer than it, runs roughly east-west, constituting a grand approach to the Palace of the People at its western terminus. A grand balcony in the Palace surveys the entire length of the boulevard. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Champs-Elysées (pronounced , literally the Elysian fields) is a broad avenue in the French capital, Paris. ...

Centrul Civic includes numerous government offices and apartments, the latter being roughly equal in number to the housing units destroyed for its construction. The apartments were originally intended to house Romania's communist elite, but the completed complex is certainly not a preferred residence for the city's new capitalist elite, with the possible exception of buildings that look out on the now-bustling Unirea Square, where Centrul Civic bisects the Dâmboviţa River, which is channelled underground past the Square. The DâmboviÅ£a River (spelt DîmboviÅ£a in pre-1993 Romanian orthography) is a river in Romania that has its source in the FăgăraÅŸ mountains and flows southward to traverse Bucharest and to meet ArgeÅŸ River 258 kilometres from its source. ...

Centrul Civic stands out through its high degree of architectural uniformity, but also through its lack of commercial spaces. Most of the small shops and restaurants that form the heart of Bucharest are to be found in the areas immediately to the north of Centrul Civic.

The never-completed eastern portion of Centrul Civic is generally known to Bucharesters as "Hiroshima". Concrete hulks of half-completed buildings stand where historic buildings (including much of the city's historic Jewish quarter) once stood. Hiroshima City Hall Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba Address 〒730-8586 Hiroshima-shi, Naka-ku, Kokutaiji 1-6-34 Phone number 082-245-2111 Official website: Hiroshima City , // The city of Hiroshima ) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu, the largest of... Jewish Romanian history concerns the Jews of Romania and of Romanian origins. ...

Centrul Civic is surrounded on nearly all sides by historical buildings and neighborhoods. Lipscani, in particular, is one famous nearby street. Many churches, such as the Sf. Nicolai-Mihai Vodă Church, were moved rather than demolished, and the nearby Antim Monastery remains largely intact, although minus its eastern wing. Immediately adjacent to Centrul Civic, just off Unirii Square, is the Metropolitan Hill (Dealul Metropoliei) with the Patriarchal Cathedral and Palace, seat of patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Lipscani is a street and an district of Bucharest, Romania, which in the Middle Ages was the most important commercial center of Bucharest and the whole Wallachia. ... The Antim Monastery is located in Bucharest, Romania and was founded in 1713 by the Metropolitan Antim Ivireanu, a poet, miniaturist and orator. ... The Romanian Orthodox Church (Biserica Ortodoxă Română in Romanian) is one of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. ...