Revolution Square, Bucharest

The square also houses the building of the former Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party (from where Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife fled by helicopter on 22 December 1989).

In 1990, the building became the seat of the Senate and since 2006 it houses the Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform.

[1] Prior to 1948, an equestrian statue of King Carol I of Romania stood in the square.

In 2005, the Romanian Minister of Culture decided to recreate the destroyed statue from a model that was kept by Meštrović's family.

[3] In August 1968 and December 1989, the square was the site of two mass meetings which represented the apogee and the nadir of Ceaușescu's regime.