Memorial of Rebirth
Towering marble spike piercing a metal crown, honouring those killed in the 1989 revolution.
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This guide to the Memorial of Rebirth in Bucharest's Revolution Square starts on a December day in nineteen eighty-nine, when Nicolae Ceaușescu stepped onto a party balcony to address a crowd brought in to applaud him. It then turns to the marble spike raised in two thousand five for the revolution's dead, the furniture designer behind it, and the nicknames the city gave it. Best heard facing the old Central Committee building.
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