Dealul Spirii

[5] Curtea Nouă was the official residence of the Phanariotes (members of upper-class Greek families from Constantinople's Phanári quarter, chosen by the Porte as rulers of Wallachia and Moldavia) until 1812, when it burnt down; it was since known as Curtea Arsă ('the Burnt Court'),[6] the ruins being razed completely in 1986.

[7] In July 1818, Dealul Spirii saw the rising of a hot air balloon, an event witnessed by Prince John Caradja.

After World War I, the hill gave its name to the famous Dealul Spirii Trial, which involved members of the Romanian Communist Party, after a bomb was detonated on 8 December 1920 in the Romanian Senate (situated on the hill), which was detonated by Max Goldstein, a communist sympathizer.

Uranus was one of the historic districts completely destroyed by Ceaușescu's communist regime, in order to build the "People's House" (see Ceaușima), part of the larger project involving Bucharest's new Civic Centre.

When the hill was razed, a mass grave was also discovered, containing the remains of people killed by the Black Death[when?].