Turnu Măgurele Courthouse
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The Turnu Măgurele Courthouse () is a judicial building located at 1 Decembrie 1918 Street, nr. 6, in
Turnu Măgurele Turnu Măgurele () is a municipiu, city in Teleorman County, Romania, in the historical region of Muntenia. Developed nearby the site once occupied by the medieval port of Turnu fortress, Turnu, it is situated north-east of the confluence between ...
,
Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
. Work on the courthouse began in 1903, at a time when Turnu Măgurele was the seat of
Teleorman County Teleorman County () is a county ( județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the historical region Muntenia, with its capital city at Alexandria. The name ''Teleorman'' is of Cumanic ( Turkic) origin. It literally means ''wild/crazy for ...
. The builders were Italian, and they finished in 1914. Another wing was added in 1923, and the structure underwent a thorough renovation in 1997.Description
at the Justice Ministry site
The facade is in
neoclassical style Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassici ...
, the columns and frieze recalling the
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, the staircase imposing. The lobby is rectangular, with hallways leading to rooms in each direction, and a skylight on the roof. There is a basement, ground and upper floor, and three courtrooms. The prosecutor's office was located on the upper floor until 2002, when it moved into a new headquarters. After 1950, when the new
communist regime A communist state, also known as a Marxist–Leninist state, is a one-party state in which the totality of the power belongs to a party adhering to some form of Marxism–Leninism, a branch of the communist ideology. Marxism–Leninism was ...
did away with the
counties of Romania A total of 41 counties (), along with the municipality of Bucharest, constitute the official administrative divisions of Romania. They represent the country's NUTS-3 (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics – Level 3) statistical su ...
, the court served a much smaller area. In 1968, when the counties were revived, the seat and with it the county court moved to
Alexandria Alexandria ( ; ) is the List of cities and towns in Egypt#Largest cities, second largest city in Egypt and the List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea, largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile ...
. Thus, the building was downgraded to a district courthouse. The courthouse is listed as a
historic monument A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical ...
by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs.


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