The world's second largest building, and monument to the folly of Romania's communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, could be turned into a shopping mall under new proposals. Ceausescu's Peoples ...

The opulent former residence of Romania's former leader Nicolae Ceausescu is to open its doors to visitors. It's been a quarter of a century since deposed Romanian president Ceausescu and his wife ...

For this is the house that Ceausescu built, the Romanian communist dictator better known as the Butcher of Bucharest, who ruled the country with an iron fist for nearly 25 years until 1989.

Life in Ceausescu's Romania was lived in the shadow of his feared secret police force - the Securitate. Hear one child's story. Show more During the communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu ...

Initially, the building was derided as a folly, an embarrassment of riches in one of Europe's poorest capitals. The cost of completing it was said to be Ceausescu's revenge. Now that the palace is ...

It's a monument to a madman. A vast palace that took 13 years to build with 2.7 million tonnes of marble especially mined from the local mountains, nine kilometres of corridors, 15,000 dazzling ...