Scorniceşti is a town in
Olt County,
Romania with a population of 12,802. The town is divided into 13 villages and has a total area of 170 km², being the locality with the largest area in the county of Olt, surpassing even its capital
Slatina.Scorniceşti was the birthplace of
communist leader Nicolae Ceauşescu, who lived here until the age of 11, when he left for
Bucharest to become a
shoemaker. During his dictatorship, Ceauşescu wanted to make Scorniceşti a "model town" to house the newly-created "
Socialist Man". So, in 1988, he began his plan by demolishing the traditional village houses and replacing them with apartment buildings, and changed the status of the place from "village" to "city" (however, the
bulldozers did not destroy the leader's birthhome, which is now one of the local attractions).
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