Palace of Justice, Bucharest
Riverside courthouse of the 1890s, with allegorical facade statues and a vast Hall of Lost Steps.
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This guide to the Palace of Justice in Bucharest starts with King Carol the First at the foundation stone in October 1890, and with the clock placed in the great Hall of Lost Steps to measure the course of trials. It follows the people who paced that hall waiting for their cases, and the earthquakes that put the courthouse itself under judgment. Best heard from the pavement facing the main facade, where its carved allegorical figures look down on the street.
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