Bucharest Mall is a modern shopping mall that opened in 1999. The building
in which it is located has a bit of history. It is part of a series built all around the city
at Ceausescu order. They were intended to be used as produce markets but I believe only one or
two opened before December 1989 which was the end of Ceausescu's era. The rest have been left incomplete
and abandoned for a long time. Their official name was "Complex agro-alimentar" but they were known to
everyone as "hunger circuses" (the reason being that their dome-shaped design looked a lot like Bucharest's
circus building; and hunger because people didn't really expect to find any food there despite the official
word). Anyway, the past is in the past :-) the building got a good facial and today it looks a lot like a
US mall. It has over 70 (expensive) stores spread over 4 levels, a large supermarket, a food court with over
20 restaurants, a multiplex cinema, a video games arcade and ... I can't think of something else to enumerate
but it has almost everything one needs. It even has a big parking lot, a true rarity in Bucharest. Address:
Calea Vitan 55-59
