The Royal Palace or Palatul Regal, of Bucharest. My 2nd Visit! AMAZING!! - Bucharest Romania - ECTV

Life is Amazing!!! Today is one of my days! My life was touched by one of the staff here at the Royal Palace. He remember me and our conversation we had when I was here years ago. He even subscribed to my YouTube Channel and has been following me ever since. And today, he found me wondering the halls and called my name.. "ERIC!" and I turned and went back and there he was. To be remembered, to touch a life, to touch a soul, to touch a person is simply incredible. He was amazing the first time we met and he is ever more outstanding the 2nd time. Life deals you cards and how you play those cards change your life from today until the end of your days! I cant tell you how much I appreciate my life and the cards that have been placed in my hand. Blessed is a word I don't use very often, but in this case, am I not only blessed but life has reached down and personally placed a card in my hand. Thanks life for all that you have given me!!! For all the days I breath and for all the sites that I have seen and for all the people that I have touched and that have touched me. I cant even start to voice my appreciation for where my life has ended up and what tomorrow will bring. Thank you to the powers that be that guide me and direct me to the new horizons that await. Thank you! I am honored that I have been chosen for such a life to live and for what awaits me next steps forward! Thank you!

The Royal Palace (Romanian: Palatul Regal) of Bucharest, known as Palace of the Republic (Romanian: Palatul Republicii) between 1948 and 1990, is a monumental building situated in the capital of Romania, on Calea Victoriei. The Palace in its various incarnations served as official residence for the Kings of Romania until 1947, when the communist regime was installed after Michael I of Romania's forced abdication. Since 1950 the Palace hosts the National Museum of Art of Romania. The former Romanian royal family currently uses Elisabeta Palace as its official residence in Bucharest.

The Palace is the largest and most significant royal residence in the country, containing emblematic official spaces such as the Throne Hall, the Royal Dining Hall and the monumental Voivodes' Staircase. An equestrian statue of the first king of Romania, Carol I stands in the center of a large square in front of it, traditionally known as the "Palace Square"(Romanian: Piața Palatului), but renamed "Revolution Square" after the Romanian revolution of 1989.

The Golescu Mansion.
Between 1812 and 1815, the Golescu Mansion was built at the place of the present Royal Palace. It belonged to stolnic Dinicu Golescu, a high-ranking aristocrat (boyar). The house was built in Neoclassical style and had 25 rooms, a quite large house for the Bucharest of that era. In 1837, the Golescu Mansion became the official residence of Prince (Hospodar) of Wallachia, Alexandru II Ghica. From 1859 to 1866, the Prince (styled Domnitor after 1862) of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, Alexandru Ioan Cuza, used the Golescu Mansion as his official residence.

In February 1866, Cuza was removed from the throne by a political coalition of Liberals and Conservatives (see "Monstrous coalition") and the German Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (who would rule as Carol I) was invited to become Domnitor of the country, by then officially known as Romania. On 10 May 1866, Prince Carol arrived in Bucharest for the first time and the aristocrats offered him the Golescu Mansion as state residence. During his reign, King Carol somehow enlarged and optimised the Golescu Mansion, that was neither large enough, nor presented the appropriate spaces or the required monumentality for official Royal duties.[citation needed] After gaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire in the Russo-Turkish War, Romania was proclaimed a kingdom in 1881, with the mansion now serving as Royal Palace.

In 1926, a fire destroyed the main building of the old Royal Palace. The Royal Family then used Cotroceni Palace as its official residence in Bucharest (Cotroceni was built by King Carol I as a residence for the young couple Ferdinand and Maria, during their tenure as Crown Princes). Since a total renovation was necessary, the remains of the old palace were demolished during the ample reconstruction performed in 1936–1937

The new Royal Palace, as it stands today, was erected in 1936–1937 under the direct supervision of Queen Marie and her son, King Carol II. The architect of the building was Nicolae Nenciulescu. During World War II, a complete rebuild of the Palace's Place was planned, in order to underline the Royal Palace's full monumentality, but this architectural project was never completed.

Until 24 August 1944, a villa, called Casa Nouă ("The New House") existed behind the Royal Palace, on the site occupied nowadays by the Sala Palatului concert hall. This was the house in which the Royal Family actually lived, since the new ....

[victormoraru]

Thanks for your visit today Eric, it was a nice surprise. I hope you like it here and you will hopefully return again sometime. I wish you luck on your journey, Victor!

[superstrongr]

I live in Arizona also …. I grew up about 100 yards from Regal palace.

[antonsasaran]

Should I say " Romania's Buckingham ? "