Monument dedicat victimelor de la Sala Dalles, Revoluția de la 1989 Bucharest

The Monument dedicat victimelor de la Sala Dalles, Revoluția de la 1989 Bucharest is a memorial at The Dalles Hall to the young people killed there by communist repression forces at the beginning of the Revolution. Its embossed names mark a specific place where an unarmed, unorganised protest met soldiers, tanks and armed forces.

What happened at Sala Dalles during the 1989 Revolution?

At Sala Dalles, protesters were confronted by soldiers, tanks, APCs, USLA troops and armed Securitate officers in plain clothes. People were shot at from buildings, side streets and tanks, while firefighters used powerful water cannons and police continued to beat and arrest demonstrators.

The memorial commemorates heroes killed in that repression, including young people who had laid white flowers at the feet of law-enforcement officers. The account recorded at this stop describes the violence connected with The Dalles Hall during the beginning of the Revolution; it does not present the whole route or every event of 1989.

What can you notice at the memorial?

The defining documented feature is the set of embossed names on the monument. They record the people killed at The Dalles Hall, so the essential action here is simple: pause at the memorial and read the names of the young people being commemorated.

You can encounter the monument as stop 6 of 11 on the Bucharest 1989 Revolution Tour. Following that route gives this memorial a precise place within the tour's account of the uprising, without turning it into a general sightseeing stop.

Where is the Monument dedicat victimelor de la Sala Dalles?

The monument is at The Dalles Hall in Bucharest. On site, look for the memorial bearing the embossed names of those killed there; that feature identifies the place described by the Bucharest 1989 Revolution route.

Save the memorial and follow the Bucharest 1989 Revolution Tour if you want to understand this specific site alongside the other documented stops in the route.