The Palace of Agriculture ( ro, Palatul Agriculturii) is a palace of Romanian Revival

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Brăila Brăila (, also , ) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County. The ''Sud-Est'' Regional Development Agency is located in Brăila. According to the 2011 Romanian census there were 180,302 pe ...

. Its construction started on 15 July 1923 and ended in 1929. The construction of the palace was first proposed by prefect Șerban Răducanu with the support of

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, the Agriculture and Domains Minister at the time. It was built to encompass all the functions of the ministry within Brăila under one single building, as well as to serve as a place for conferences and reunions and to host a museum on Romanian agriculture. According to former

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county councillor Petre Candidatu, the original equestrian statue of Carol I could have been buried in front of the Palace of Agriculture in Brăila by

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forces during their occupation of Romania in

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as they established their headquarters on the city.

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* Buildings and structures in Brăila Historic monuments in Brăila County Palaces in Romania Government buildings completed in 1929 Neo-Brâncovenesc architecture {{Romania-struct-stub