București Mall (known locally as ''Mall Vitan'') is a

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that ...

located in the Vitan neighborhood of

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north o ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

, close to the Dudești and Văcărești neighbourhoods. At the time of its completion it was the first shopping mall in Romania.București Mall and Plaza România
Located on Calea Vitan approximately outside Bucharest's historic center, the four-story, mall opened in 1999, in a Ceaușescu-era abandoned

hunger circus "Hunger circus" ( ro, Circ al foamei) was a colloquial name for any in a series of identical buildings which were to be completed as part of President Nicolae Ceaușescu's program of systematization during his period as ruler of Romania. Official ...

, or giant food warehouse, in an area largely shaped during the Communist period (''see

Ceaușima Ceaușima () is a vernacular word construction in Romanian sarcastically comparing the policies of former Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu to the nuclear attack on Hiroshima. This portmanteau term was coined in the 1980s to describe the huge ...

'').

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* Shopping malls in Bucharest Shopping malls established in 1999 1999 establishments in Romania {{romania-struct-stub