CEC Palace

The CEC Palace is one of the most well-known, elegant and representative architectural monuments of Bucharest.

It was built in a period of only five years, i.e. during 1895-1900, and bears the mark of the French academism style, a style that was a fashion of that age, nonetheless combined with other classical and baroque architectural elements.

Nowadays, the current CEC Palace is the fourth head office of the banking institution: in 1865 it was in the Ministry for Finance, then during 1866-1875 in the Şerban-Vodă Inn (on the site of the current NBR premises), while during 1876-1895 in its own premises, that were pulled down in 1895 in order to build the current Palace.

The setting of the cornerstone by King Carol I and Queen Elisabeth took place on 8 June 1897, so that this is the date considered as the birth date of the monument.

Now we have the pleasure to kindly invite you to see some images of the CEC Palace and find out some interesting things about it by browsing through this application.