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The Palace Cotroceni
 

In 1888 the crown prince Ferdinand decides to make build his residence has the place of the old monastery bucarestois Cotroceni. This princely residence was transformed into 1893; the Cotroceni palate had been born. This building combines the French electric style and neo-Rumanian.
 

The site was selected for the young Ferdinand couple of Hohenzollern-Marie of Saxony-Cobourg Gotha, niece of the Victoria queen, was justified by the fact that during more nearly 200 years Cotroceni had been used as residence to the prince Rumanian.

The preliminary Draft of construction was conceived by the French architect Paul Cottereau. Later, Rumanian Gheorges Cerchez added a series of local elements to this building.
 

The Cotroceni Palate reveals its sumptuousness as of the entry. The monumental staircase enter of broad galleries of style French neo-baroque, points out the Grand opera of Paris, which was used to him as model. The parts most representative is on the first floor, dining room or dominates the neo-rebirth and the library of the king, conceived in style Henry II.

The living room of the flowers, whose architectural decoration is built on the reason for a floral garland, is the place or the Marie queen wrote her fairy tales for the children. The large living room of ceremony was the place of meeting of several personalities outstanding of the Rumanian culture: Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Grigorescu, Vasile Alecsandri, and Alexandru Vlahuta.
 

On the second floor the apartments the room of the queen decorated in Tudor style is, impresses by the full use of woodwork, like the small Norwegian living room, a true chief of work of woodcarving.
 

After 1977 the palate was used by the former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu as a house of hosts.

Since 1991 the Palate became the official residence of the President of Romania.

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