Nicolae Ceausescu Tour

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A fascinating tour about Dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's life and achievements.

The tour will include the place of birth and Doftana prison where he was detained before becoming president. We will be tracing the communist dictator's steps, seeing places where the Ceausescu couple has stayed to the place where they were executed, on Christmas Eve in 1989.

Itinerary:

Itinerary 500km

1. Bucharest - The Palace of the Parliament is the second largest building after the Pentagon. The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceausescu regime as the seat of political and administrative power. Nicolae Ceausescu named it the House of the Republic, but many Romanians call it the People's House.

2. Scornicesti - here we will visit the memorial house of Ceausescu, we will see where he was born and raised until the age of 11.

3. Doftana - was a Romanian prison built in 1895, it was used in the 1930s to detain political prisoners, among them the future president Nicolae Ceausescu.

4. Targoviste - Ceaușescu's government was overthrown in the December 1989 revolution, and him and his wife were executed in a military base in Targoviste.