Halal culture! The Palatului Hall, the spearhead of Bucharest culture, has chairs…

When you don’t give any money for culture, you can’t expect anything else. The Palace Hall, next to Cişmigiu Park, looks even more disastrous than the park itself.

With a capacity of 2,700-4,000 seats, depending on the request of the organizers, the administrators of the Palace Hall (RAPPS) collect, on average, 10,000 euros per event. In 2023, 100 events were organized at the Palace Hall, which means annual revenues of 1 million euros.

But where are the investments, so that at some of the most important cultural events in Romania, the seats are not torn and patched, the carpet stained and the wood on the stage not cracked? “For the proper functioning and preservation of the Sala Palatului building, repairs, sanitization or repairs of the nature of investments in the building are carried out annually.

Currently, all due diligence is being done to identify the necessary sources of funding in order to start the consolidation, rehabilitation and modernization of the building, in order to set up a multi-functional hall”, the RAPPS representatives answer the question of ZF: What investments do you plan to modernize the building? When will they be started and what is the allocated budget? Răzvan Botea

But the “repair works” are nowhere to be seen – the furniture, much degraded today, is the same from the time when Ceausescu held PCR congresses here.