The Floreasca Paradox. How the first large neighborhood built by communists in Bucharest became a magnet for today's millionaires
Development of the Floreasca neighborhood in Bucharest (1953). Photo: Agerpres
Built between 1954-1962, the Floreasca District was placed by the Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej regime in the showcase of great achievements and represented the “socialist housing ideal”.
It was the first neighborhood thought of as a micro-district, with all the amenities, but with small and cramped apartment buildings.
The famous Floreasca pit was transformed into a park equipped with an ice rink and a slide, which became symbols of the neighborhood.
Verdi Park was equipped with 4 sports bases for mass sports, a cinema (Cinemascop Floreasca), a market, the UCECOM shopping complex, two secondary schools, a high school, kindergartens and nurseries, a dispensary and 4 beaches, shops on the ground floor of the blocks and a sports complex with pier and promenade.
read, on B365.rowhy Floreasca is considered by many architects to be the neighborhood where the quality of housing is among the best in the city.
