Palace of the Deposits and Consignments
Eclectic bank palace crowned by a glass and metal dome, home of the country's oldest savings bank.
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This guide to the CEC Palace on Calea Victoriei in Bucharest follows the people who made Romania's oldest savings bank work, from the April day in eighteen eighty-one when its first counter opened with a royal customer. It turns to the cashiers, postmasters and village teachers who collected the country's small coins, and to the children who became its most numerous savers. Listen from the pavement facing the great arched entrance.
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