Palace of Culture

Palace of Culture is can be found in Iasi , northern part of Romania.

It was first served as Administrative Palace and became Palace of Justice until 1995. It was assigned as four museums nowadyas united under the name of Moldova National Museum Complex. It was 1906 when the construction was started and was partly built on the old ruins of the mediaeval Royal Court of Moldavia  in 1434. Partly on the top of them foundations of the former neoclassical style palace dated to the time of Prince Alexandru Moruzi in 1806. It was rebuilt by Prince Mihail Sturdza and dismantled in 1904. It was from the latter building that the palace inherited the legend of the 365 rooms, as many as the days within one year. It was designed in flamboyant neo-Gothic style by Romanian architect I.D. Bennider. The palace has 298 large rooms with a total area of over 36 , 000 square metres windows in the front part of the building and another 36 inside the building.