''Piața Romană'' (

Romanian Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language ***Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language **Romanian cuisine, traditional ...

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Square") is a metro station in central

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...

, located in the square with the same name, on the main north–south axis of the city centre. The entrance to the station is on Magheru Boulevard. According to Sorin Călinescu, one of the three planners of the station, when shown the plans for the Line M2 in 1985, First Lady

Elena Ceaușescu Elena Ceaușescu (; born Lenuța Petrescu; 7 January 1916 – 25 December 1989) was a Romanian communist politician who was the wife of Nicolae Ceaușescu, General Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and leader of the Socialist Republic o ...

reportedly demanded the station's removal. According to some of the people who worked on the station, Ceaușescu was concerned that workers and students were starting to gain weight and needed more exercise, hence they should walk instead of taking the metro train. The engineers, having enough foresight, realized the station would be necessary in the future, and the initial construction was done in secret. Because of this, the platforms are somewhat asymmetrical, very narrow (less than wide) and the waiting area is in a corridor separated by thick walls from the platforms in order to sustain the station's structure. While subways ran past without stopping for about a year, thousands of residents reportedly wrote to petition for a station, which was opened on 28 November 1988. It was added to the previously opened extension from

Piața Unirii Piața Unirii (, ''Union Square'') is the largest square in central Bucharest, Romania, and one of the largest public spaces in Europe, being located immediately south of the old town and within the boundaries of Sectors 3. Part of the Civic C ...

Pipera Pipera village is a neighborhood in Voluntari, Ilfov County, at the northern edge of the city of Bucharest, Romania. Development Until 1995, Pipera was an ordinary village. After that, an "El Dorado" of land transactions began. Plots of land th ...

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Romana Railway stations in Romania opened in 1988 {{Romania-railstation-stub