Video:
Welcome to Bucharest
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LUNCHES & DINNERS
Buffet lunches will be served both on Monday 15 and on Tuesday 16, in the conference centre.
Welcome Cocktail in the "Domeniul Stirbey"
 
On Sunday, 14 June
at 20.00, Electrica and Hidroelectrica
invites all delegates
to a Welcome Cocktail
that will convene in
the Stirbey Palace
(Domeniul Stirbey).
The Palace is located
in the centre of a
natural park in Buftea, just 20 km north west of Bucharest.
It was built between 1855 and 1864 by Barbu Stirbey, Prince
of Wallachia for his son Alexandru. Short visits of the mansion
will be possible during the Cocktail.
Official Dinner at the Parliament Palace
 
On Monday, 15 June
2008 at 20.00, Transelectrica and
Nuclearelectrica
invites participants
and accompanying
persons to the
official dinner at the
Parliament Palace.
The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is a multi-purpose
building containing both chambers of the Romanian
Parliament. According to the Guinness Book of World Records,
the Palace is the world’s largest civilian administrative
building (The Pentagon is the largest overall).
The Palace was designed and nearly completed by the Ceauşescu regime as the seat of political and administrative
power. Nicolae Ceauşescu named it the House of the Republic
(Casa Republicii), but many Romanians call it the People’s
House (Casa Poporului). The structure combines elements and motifs from multiple
sources, in an eclectic neoclassical architectural style. The building
is constructed entirely of materials of Romanian origin.
Built on the site of a hill variously known as Spirii Hill, Uranus
Hill, or Arsenal Hill, which was largely raised for this megaproject,
the building anchors the west end of Unirii Boulevard and Centrul
Civic. Constructing the Palace and Centrul Civic required demolishing
much of Bucharest’s historic district, including 19 Orthodox
Christian churches, six Jewish synagogues, three Protestant churches
(plus eight relocated churches), and 30,000 residences. At the time
of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s 1989 overthrow and execution, the building’s
structure and design were complete. Subsequently, many of the
furnishings were never installed, and the last three basement levels
and a large clock tower (that would have displayed the official
Romanian time) were never finished. During the change in regime, the
new leaders of Romania referred to the building as the House of
Ceauşescu, to highlight the excessive luxury in which Ceauşescu
would have lived, in stark contrast to the squalor and poverty
endured by many people living in the surrounding neighborhoods.
Parts of the building (some of the west wing, some of the east wing,
parts of the second floor, basement 3 and everything
below) have yet to be completed.
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