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BUCHAREST CIRCUIT
Date: 18th of August 2024 (16 loops, total 98 km)
Start: Bucharest, Bd.Unirii, Biblioteca Națională / Finish: Bucharest Bd.Unirii, Biblioteca Națională
Stage Profile:
Description:
3 sprints at 4,8 and 12
Just like every year and similar to the Grand Tours, the Tour of Romania concludes with a circuit stage on the capital’s streets, providing spectators the chance to see the colorful peloton pass by multiple times at high speed.
In a festive atmosphere, we will witness an exciting battle for the final stage victory, after which we will also find out the name of the 2024 Tour of Romania’s winner.
We look forward to seeing you all in Bucharest!
Tourist attractions:
The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest
The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest (formerly known before the 1989 revolution as the House of the Republic or People’s House) measures 270 m by 240 m, with a height of 84 m above ground and 92 m below ground, built in the spirit of socialist realism architecture. It has 9 levels above ground and another 9 underground. According to the World Records Academy, the Palace of Parliament is the third largest administrative building for civilian use in terms of area in the world, the most expensive administrative building in the world, and the heaviest building in the world.
After the 1977 earthquake, Nicolae Ceaușescu ordered the “reconstruction” of Bucharest as a new, standalone city. The actual construction site started in the 1980s with the demolition of over 7 km2 of the old city center and the relocation of over 40,000 people from this area. Among the disappeared buildings are Văcărești Monastery, Brâncovenesc Hospital, National Archives, Republic Stadium, and more. The work was carried out with the forced labor of conscripted soldiers, reducing costs to a minimum.
20,000 workers, 5,000 soldiers, 700 architects, an army of so-called “volunteers” worked under harsh conditions, in three shifts, for 7 years.
Since 1994, the building has housed the Chamber of Deputies, and starting with 2004, the Romanian Senate has also been located here.
Union Boulevard
Union Boulevard is one of the most important boulevards in Bucharest and one of the city’s busiest roads. The large boulevard represents the longitudinal axis of the new Civic Center project, initiated after the 1977 earthquake under the pretext of reconstructing and repairing the damages caused by the earthquake in Bucharest. Starting with the idea of remedying the earthquake’s damage, the new Civic Center project was used by Nicolae Ceaușescu’s regime to dissipate the influences exerted by the old, historic center of Bucharest on the urban environment.
Unirii Boulevard, originally named “Victory of Socialism” in the initial project, connects Alba Iulia Square with Constitution Square, passing through the important traffic hub of Unirii Square.
Inspired by the architecture of totalitarian regimes from the former socialist bloc, particularly China and North Korea (visited by Nicolae Ceaușescu in1970), the works on the new Civic Center and the boulevard were inaugurated on June 25, 1984, in the presence of the party and state leadership. Representing a socialist equivalent of the Champs-Élysées, Victory of Socialism Boulevard fits into the series of megalomaniac works marking the last decade of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s repressive regime. One of the dictator’s great desires was for the boulevard to surpass the Parisian avenue in size.